INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
While software is said to be eating the world, software developers and other technical talent remains in short supply
Not only is this seeing major tech companies compete hard to hire the best engineers, but it has also meant a rise in the use of remote
working freelancers or turning to offshore agencies
The problem with either solution, however, is the same: how to ensure outsourced work will be of high quality and that the individuals
working on your project will be a good fit with the rest of your team.Enter YouTeam, a U.K
startup and recent graduate of Y Combinator, which has created what it calls a marketplace for offshore talent
needing to add to their own development teams through outsourcing
In this way the aim is to bridge the gap between hiring an individual freelancer and the added vetting and accountability using an agency
CEO Anton Mishchenko recalls
Secondly, it is impossible to know whether a company has the right team for the project because they rarely disclose information about their
engineers until the contract is signed
Thirdly, the interests of the client and the supplier can often fork in different directions and so there is often limited trust, especially
it has partnered with on the supply-side
Instead of simply hiring an agency and entering a crapshoot in terms of who will become part of your outsourced team, the idea is to
contract with named individuals at the agency, either for a set amount of time or throughout a much longer-term project.For the agency
worker themselves, they arguably get a reliable and potentially more interesting stream of work without the hassle of spending time looking
for and pricing the next gig
For the company seeking to outsource development work, they benefit from the vetting a reputable agency provides, and the fact that YouTeam
Our bet is simple: it is people that matter much more then companies, and so you should meet the people first
says competitors broadly fall into two camps
Freelancer platforms, which are mostly for short-term projects, and supplier recommendation platforms, which help match you to an agency but
We are the only solution that help clients throughout the whole journey from learning how to start their remote operations to scaling their
