6 Points To Consider Before Hiring A Remote Development Team

While the pandemic has shaken the foundation of most organizations, it has also allowed them to tweak their policies and adopt other methodologies to become a strategic enabler of business agility. Remote working has become the new trend with WFH is a popular acronym now. While the internet is encompassed with a variety of freelancing workers now it has become easy for the talent acquisition team of organizations to look for competent candidates to fulfill the role. With pandemic, remote developers are on a boom and companies can leverage their capabilities at an economical investment. Offshore employees serve similar or more capabilities and deliver quality output for technical development necessities.

There are several specifications that organizations take into consideration while hiring a development team viz.: 

• The cost of hiring and training in-house developers is high.
• The organization’s size is not apt for hiring a full-time developer.
• The ROI is may not be yet registered so no guarantee if full-time developers will be beneficial.
• Delving full-time developers translates to disclosing intricate details of the organization which may not be apt.
• More infrastructure cost and expenditure of maintaining a physical office.

These points are accountable for whether a company should hire full-time employees or not. A quick solution to this is looking for an outsourced team that works at a rather lower cost. Here, hiring remote developers who work on a project basis comes with an economical option. Remote developers allow experimenting with the capability of various offshore candidates and shuffling among them based on their competency. Since background check is an intricate element of hiring remote developers, there are several more factors to be monitored closely before hiring remote developers.

Points To Consider While Hiring Remote Development Team

While hiring remote development teams has become a trend in times of pandemic, certain guidelines need to be followed to bring the best performance for organizations. The remote developers need to be adept at what they do and have a fair track record. There is a checklist that needs to be ticked before hiring them:

• Background Verification: It is the most basic component while hiring an offshore development team. The team members need to have their documents ready and must have already worked on a couple of projects. This derives the performance ratio of each team member and marks credibility to their name. It may help in highlighting the black sheep in the team if any. Therefore, the best part is hiring remote developers who are only top-rated by prior projects and reliable enough to handle the coding standards remotely.
• Social Media Presence: To tick the reliability of the team their members can be traced via their online presence on social media platforms and LinkedIn which has their professional records. It becomes seamlessly easier to monitor their professional records and build transparency while checking the remote development team’s members. Once the presence is authenticated there is reliability that the remote team can be taken to the next level of verification.
• Ultralow Hiring Rates: It is always advisable to stay off from companies that offer incredibly low charges since an organization with a quality workforce will not jeopardize their revenue by going in unbelievable low charges’ contracts and exploit the workforce. Their extremely low cost may cry out loud for attention by getting into too low-profit contract. This may seem fishy at first and who knows could compromise on quality as well. Therefore, it is best advised to not enter into a contract with such organizations and look for teams that do not compromise too much on cost and quality.
• Checking The Legitimacy: Since the market is full of spammers it is quite possible that you may fall under their trap. This implies that while you are entering into a contract with a remote developers’ team you may scan through their records thoroughly and look for any red flags in the process. It is easy nowadays to paint the black white so hiring an illegitimate team may ultimately throw your organization off-guard and become a loss affair in dismay.
• Administering Past Records: While you are entering a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with an offshore development team, you must verify all the documents carefully so that there is no loophole discovered later. The organization with which you are binding a contract should present to you the list of past projects they may have worked on to prove their credibility.
• Technology Expertise: When hiring a remote development team it is mandatory to specify the technologies that need to be worked upon. For instance, whether the application is developed for iOS or Android platforms, whether it is for AR/VR apps, web apps, mobile apps, IoT apps, AI-driven apps like Chatbots, etc. 

While these were a few pointers to consider while hiring a remote development team, there are several benefits to it as well.

Benefits of Hiring Remote Development Team:

• Cost-Effective Work-Life Balance: Since the remote development team works essentially until the project is delivered there is a great work-life balance. The developers’ every hour becomes accountable which means no dime is wasted while on the other hand they can wind up the project at a reasonable time and be billed for each hour and their time becomes valuable and thus there is no waste of resources. The resources can also work from home and therefore adhere even more to the work-life balance.
• Improved Productivity: The remote development team becomes autonomous and therefore takes responsibility for the entire productivity of the project. Every nitty-gritty is noted down and frequent prototypes are shared with the offshore team for their approval. A destined result is shared with the hiring organization and there is no waste of timeline. 
• No micromanagement: In a remote work environment there is no micromanagement of resources since the developers work independently without any supervising body. The team lead here guides the team to work at a certain pace and encapsulate the best practices of coding. The remote development team can give its best input and also learn on the go.
• Flexible Timing: Since there is no bound timeline for working hours the development team can work at their disposal and be flexible with their timeline. This gives the team creative independence to deliver best of the quality and work with a clearer head. Overall, no adherence to timeframe makes the team give its best input and gets a competitive advantage in the market.

These were few points that instill you to look for a remote development team. In case you too are looking for a remote development team to meet your business goal you can always leverage the capabilities of Savitriya’s robust team. For getting in touch mail at contact@usualsmart.com and take the first steps of many brilliant ones.

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