Inside Nearshoring: Interview with Jakub Ruzicka a Head of Engineering in a Czech Fintech company

Inside Nearshoring

Hello, everybody! This is Inside Nearshoring online show and in our new episode we are talking about 3Rs of nearshoring, driving factors for considering nearshore model and very much more with our guest — Jakub Ruzicka, Head of Engineering, Fintech, Czech. Watch our video to find out more about work with remote developer teams and get some advice from the nearshoring expert.

Timestamps:
0:01-1-39 Welcome to Inside Nearshoring! Introduce yourself, please.

1:40-3:10 How are you relevant to nearshoring?

3:11-4:24 If you get an amazing developers team with a low price now, but in a year of successful work you need to pay way more. Would you agree on this?

4:25-7:20 How would you ever measure the success of your remote team?

7:21-9:40 Estimate and delivery — how matched they are? How to understand that the estimates are reasonable?

9:41- 12:53 As a Czech company do you see any kind of difference when an Eastern Europe candidate knows that their client is also from Eastern Europe, not the Western part as usual? Do you need to sell more to get the candidate?

12:54-17:03 Which types of clients may exist and which of them you belong to?

17:04-19:37 Why the nearshoring business focuses only on recruiting but pays much less attention to retention and relationships?

19:38-21:34 Would you agree that managers who work with remote teams ignore the essence of HR work?

21:35-24:49 How should an organisational structure be changed in the tech department to actually manage all the remotely spread teams around the world?

24:50-27:03 What is the business reason and the main driving factor for you to think about nearshoring?

27:04-28:16 What is the split between ladies and men in your technology departments?

28:17-31:10 What advice would you want to give to the candidates who apply from all over the world, for example to your company?

31:11-33:51 How does your team lead usually prepare herself or himself for the interview with a candidate? Is there a technical assessment or some other tools to help with the right decision?

33:52-34:26 Could you consider the high skills in Counter Strike like a benefit for a candidate?

34:27-36:51 What advice would you give to businesses who are not yet doing nearshoting but thinking about that?

36:52-37:27 Conversation summary.
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