Why hire from India?
India ships more production code per dollar than any market on earth, but only if you know how to find, vet and onboard senior engineers. Below is the same 6-step playbook our hiring desk runs every week.
1. Source against the right anchor
Anchoring your search against an outcome (not a job title) cuts your funnel by 40%. We score candidates against the top three tickets they will own in their first 90 days.
2. Run a 60-minute craft interview
Skip whiteboard puzzles. Hand the candidate the worst piece of code in your repo and ask them to refactor it live. You will see judgement, communication and craft within 20 minutes.
3. Pay top-of-band, optimise for retention
The 90th-percentile India salary is still half your local 50th percentile — do not be cheap on the rate that prevents your top hire from leaving.
4. Onboard like the company depends on it
Day-1 access, week-1 ownership, month-1 demo. The teams that win run a structured 30-60-90.
5. Build a culture of written async
Time zones are a feature, not a bug — but only if your team writes things down.
6. Measure outcomes, not hours
Track shipped value per engineer per fortnight. The rest is noise.
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