Building World Class Teams From Developing Nations
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Built a world‑class engineering team from Latin America by hiring 35 hires in 14 months, paying similar rates to New York while spending 70% less cost than many rivals, and achieving 95% retention. The process uses community building for pipeline, trust and autonomy for onboarding, explicit deprogramming of nearshore habits, 40–45 postmortems for learning, and product‑first tasks as training. An external consulting firm rates the distributed team stronger than many co‑located teams, and most engineers move on to US/European roles.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12Baseline
- 2:44Why did I want to do this
- 5:10Building World Class Teams From Developing Nations
- 7:54How we did it
- 8:46Basic infrastructures
- 9:19Remote vs distributed
- 10:13Pipeline
- 11:36Selling Talent
- 12:42Culture Shock
- 14:43Trust Expectations
- 16:36Team Values
- 18:25Room for Failure
- 20:21Lessons Learned
- 21:51Results
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