How to hire the right developers?

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We spent a lot of time looking at developers,

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and we've actually gone through this process before and had bad

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experiences with with developers.

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For the past eight or nine years,

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I've been working with an offshore development team over

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in India, and I I grew tired of the

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process to develop anything.

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We always have concerns when it comes to using

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agencies, whether it's near shore, offshore, even on-site.

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We were looking for a way of getting talent.

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We were struggling to get talent in the UK.

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So

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we were looking at offshore

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development, we

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looked at different options.

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We looked at Sri Lanka.

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We looked at hiring freelancers in Europe.

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So we thought about hiring

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our own developers, which as a startup, you know,

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it's a it's a it's a lot of work and a lot of, you know,

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requires a lot of capital to do that.

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The skills of the developers are very important

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in the sense that we we want to make sure that the UI is

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is is good and easy to use,

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but we also need understanding from the developers.

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And and business analysis and

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understanding is so important to having the product,

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you know, really come out how you want it to.

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One of our partners recommended Merixstudio.

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We came to Poznan and we looked at a few different

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development houses.

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Merixstudio was the one that best fit our culture,

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so we we chose it.

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We we found we were very confident very quickly that it

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was the right solution.

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What we found with Merixstudio is actually from the very

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beginning, they were constantly going

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above and beyond and telling us about the work they can

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do, looking at our application,

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looking at our business and sending us messages about our

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business, and it really matched up with what our vision was.

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I love the company culture.

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I love how you treat your developers here,

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and I I think that that

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has a really positive effect on on on the kind of

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work that they will produce.

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And it's that not having to worry about the talent

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and being able to rely on it that that's the real key.

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And honestly, the talent is brilliant.