2. - John Gurley is a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.
He is listed consistently on the Forbes Midas List and is considered one of technology’s top dealmakers
3. Why Poland ?
● >50% of CEE GDP is generated by Poland
● Centrally located on the European continent
● Largest pool of software developers in CEE -
280,000
● 31 top Tech Universities
● Democratic country with stable political climate
● Member of the Visa Waiver Program
● Intel, AWS, IBM, Google, and Microsoft have
offices in Poland.
4. Why Poland? American Chamber of Commerce Recommend Poland!
Source: https://amcham.pl/news/poland-realizing-its-dominant-position-cee
5. Why Warsaw is best city for building office?
● Warsaw is the capital of Poland which offers
great job opportunities, culture, events, social
life, and fine dining restaurants.
● High safety index: 73.46
● 10+ direct flights per day to main US cities
● Modern public transportation (new tube)
● Variety of office spaces
6. Why Polish Developers?
Original source: https://medium.com/javashop/why-polish-developers-are-one-of-the-best-in-the-world-57787edf26e7
7. Profile of Polish Developer
● Accurate and efficient coding skill
● Fluent in English
● Strong math and algo backgrounds
● Always looking for tech challenges
● Prefer working for a product company
● Popular languages: Python, Java, Scala, Go, React,
Typescript, .Net,Rust. Cloud: AWS, Azure
8. Costs of living
Warsaw Los Angeles SF Bay Area
Health insurance /month $80 $500 $500
Rent a flat (single) /month $700 $2500 $6000
Car insurance /month $50 $150 $150
Kindergarten /month $200 $1300 $2000
One day parking fee $7 $20 $30
Dinner $8 $15 $20
Tax (all withholdings) 20% 33% 33%
9. Build Your Makers Team With Us
● We are a team of experienced tech leads who specialize in
engineering recruiting and management
● 18 years experience in European IT market
● Experienced in helping US tech companies to build teams
in Poland (San Francisco Bay Area and New York clients)
● Close partner network in CEE
● Focus: Recruitment, Retention, Collaboration
11. Ramping Up Plan - Timeline
Start 30 days 60 days
90 days
4 Architects + 7 Seniors + 15 Seniors + 4 QAs
In 90 days we
will have a full
team of
30 Developers
We plan on making an architect focused team. They will start with designing high-level architecture,
defining components. They will prepare environment for onboarding new hires. We will also consider
taking over whole teams from our close partner network.
Team of 3 specialized recruiters (+3 on demand) and supporting team to coordinate sourcing and
interviewing. We will use ATS to connect with client system to smoothly conduct interviews and provide
transparency.
12. Our Offer
● Building a tech team of 30 Engineers in CEE region
● After 1-year of cooperation client may hire the engineers directly after paying
recruitment fee (10% of the annual Contract value per engineer)
● To assure smooth cooperation we assign each client a Success Manager
● We will take all operational tasks of managing the employee & assuring continuity in
case an employee decides to leave. Free swaps.
● Easily Scale-up teams without additional costs
● One Partner for all services (legal, contract employment, taxes, etc.)
● Access to our Partner Network (various technologies developers)
13. Other services
● Keeping High Retention
● Boosting Collaboration
● Building Client Image in Poland
● Onboarding / Offboarding
● Knowledge Transfer
● Workload Management
● Feedback
● Execution Monitoring
● Community Engagement
● Continuous Learning
15. Case Study - Company From New York
Upkeep options
Assigned Success Manager.
We take all operational cost
of managing the employee
& assuring continuity in
case an employee decides
to leave (during cooperation
we replaced one developer
and extend the team team
to 10 people). We added
also DevOps part-time, PM
and 2 QA.
Problem
Fintech company (240 people)
from New York received funds
for a new project and had very
tight product roadmap. They
needed a new Java engineering
team to start working on new
microservice. Due to security
reason they needed to have all
people in one city / one office.
They were looking for 4-5
developers and tech lead.
Our Solution
In first month we delivered
Tech lead + Senior Developer to
design architecture and main
components. In second month
onboarded 3 Senior Java
Developers to start working on
defined coding tasks. The team
follow Agile / Scrum. After 1-
year of cooperation client had
an option to hire developers
directly.
