Customer success story StratiFi + YouTeam

We’re in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, it’s extremely expensive and competitive there, and with the startup budget, you have to be resourceful. But at the same time, you have to find people who are good. While the Valley offers really great candidates, some of them are really expensive to hire. I had to expand my search to all possible places where I could get good talent, so I decided to look remotely.

One reason is that YouTeam is a Y Combinator company and that was a major factor. Second, when I looked at the YouTeam website and your suggested candidates, it jumped at me that you had candidates that had the background and the skills I was looking for. I reached out to YouTeam and you set up the interviews—once I started talking to the candidates, I was able to find people that I was looking for.

Probably a couple of weeks. We interviewed a few candidates who have just wrapped up some other projects, and they were available at that time to start.

I interviewed them. Being an engineer myself, I was able to ask them some tough questions, and they did very well. They also had good work experience and knowledge that I was looking for. So I decided to test them out.

Simplifying and helping us to find talent. As a startup you need to find the right talent at the right time. Tapping into a pool beyond The Valley is extremely valuable. At the same time, since we’re a startup, things can change pretty quickly for us and being able to have some sort of flexibility guaranteed by YouTeam was valuable. And then, on top of that, YouTeam has been very receptive and responsive, the customer success and support teams have also been exceptional. Now that we’ve worked for almost a year, I can definitely say I was very pleasantly surprised.

If you’re at the point where you need to move fast and make quick changes to your product, and are struggling to find good talent, and you are on a budget—I think it’s a good idea to look into hiring remote engineers.

We’re the best marketplace for remote engineers who are exceptionally talented and can help your startup grow and build an amazing product.