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Hiring tech talent remotely: 2019 trends — Insights from a platform for hiring remote dev teams
Insights from YouTeam's operational data:
- Most popular programming roles in 2019;
- Tech stack US startups were looking for in 2019;
- Requests per seniority & English level;
- Average rates set by dev shops in Eastern Europe and South America in 2019.
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Philip
This is a seamless ad. How do you downvote? cc @rrhoover
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@captnphilip Philip, my strong apology but I'm going to copy the commentary I sent above. We have never used fake accounts. The thing is it is much easier to get organic upvotes when you post a more familiar-to-everyone content (e.g. Black friday deals, Top 2019 products, etc.) than the actual product. As you may notice on my profile, I have never been a maker nor ever posted smth except for (as you say) Products until Dec 30 2019. Surprisingly, even on such a low in visitor amount day as Dec 30, people upvoted our research. How to notice products with bot traffic — they usually get down in the list pretty fast when PH notices the bots in the morning PST time. Even products with 800 upvotes go down to 10th place. Speaking of "not a product" commentary — this research took a few people's workdays to wrap numbers from our unique operation data in the end of last year, and we wanted to share it. If the community does not like what we do, we're ready not to share data like this anymore.
Hey Hunters!
In 2019, remote work was on its rise and is now becoming mainstream. Working remotely is no longer a privilege of senior professionals or just a Millennial generation fad. Stripe has announced that its 5th work hub is going to be remote. Buffer concluded a survey where 99% of respondents mentioned they expect to be doing their work remotely for at least some time in the upcoming years.
Companies looking to attract the best tech talent in 2020 will have to expand their geography. However, finding remote software engineers, especially for the first time, might be a challenging and risky task. Here at YouTeam, our mission is to guide fellow startups through the process of building strong remote tech teams of exceptional quality in a non-risky way.
Concluding the yearly overview of our activities, we’ve analysed our operational data of 2019 to take the trends into account while building our growth strategy. We also decided to share these insights with you, fellow startup founders. The analysis is built on requests of YouTeam's customers, most of which are US and UK startups looking for tech talent outside of their location.
What were they looking for in a remote developer in 2019? What is an average hourly rate in South America and Eastern Europe? What roles were to be filled in 2019?
From your experience, which developers were in the highest demand in 2019 and will this change in 2020? Do let us know your opinion!
@adas_bradauskas Hi Adas, thanks for your feedback. We often see pages like "Top 2019 somethings" or "Top BlackFriday deals for x and y" being launched here on PH, so we decided to try it as well. We're not sharing generic content written by a SEO copywriter — we base a report on personal operational data. So it took quite some time and a few people's workdays to wrap numbers up and present it here.
This is clearly not a product. How can this be upvoted that much? Fake accounts? Pods? @rrhoover
@b_maurin Brice, we have never used fake accounts. The thing is it is much easier to get organic upvotes when you post a more familiar-to-everyone content (e.g. Black friday deals, Top 2019 products, etc.) than the actual product. As you may notice on my profile, I have never been a maker nor ever posted smth except for (as you say) Products until Dec 30 2019. Surprisingly, even on such a low in visitor amount day as Dec 30, people upvoted our research. How to notice products with bot traffic — they usually get down in the list pretty fast when PH notices the bots in the morning PST time. Even products with 800 upvotes go down to 10th place. Speaking of "not a product" commentary — this research took a few people's workdays to wrap numbers from our unique operation data in the end of last year, and we wanted to share it. If the community does not like what we do, we're ready not to share data like this anymore.