Great Place to Work 2024

Sticky Jobs: How to Retain Remote Employees

Outsourcing isn’t a word that generally fills people with warm fuzzies of company loyalty. In fact, it might be difficult to picture a team in India as more than just a far-off speck on a map. It might seem even more difficult to build a relationship with a staff in India, as the average outsourced […]

Clothing Donations

When you donate your unused clothes to a Goodwill or Salvation Army, where do you hope they go? Probably to someone who is in need. That’s what I hope for, at least. Then again, it’s so easy to drop off a bag of clothes at the donation center, and then go on with your day […]

10 Criteria to Evaluate an Offshore Software Vendor

Are you looking into going offshore for some of your development needs? Having trouble figuring out which kind of vendor is the right fit, or afraid that you’ll be jaded by a bad choice? Here are ten criteria to evaluate an offshore vendor to see if they’re a good fit for you and your company. 1. Hiring Process […]

Beach Day

Spring finally arrived in Michigan this week. Good thing, too, because we were all starting to get cabin fever. It didn’t help that everyone in the India office (where it’s nice and sunny 365 days a year) got to go on a family beach outing.  (Some of us Michiganders considered a beach outing for ourselves, […]

How to Validate a Technical Hire…Even if you don’t Speak Code

For some, working with technical employees seems second nature. They speak the language of developers, mutually understanding each other and building ideas from fruitful conversation. But for others, listening to a developer speak about their craft is like trying to understand someone speaking Pig Latin in a foreign language. If you fall in this second category, this is […]

Little Hearts Visit

This Monday our office had the day off to celebrate Republic Day–what a better time than to go visit the people at Little Hearts?! Approximately 6.5% of the Indian population has some form of serious mental disorder. These people are marginalized not just by society, but also their own families. Parents will often abandon their […]

Sharing the Joy of Christmas with the Gypsies

In the Thiruvallur District, about 30 miles from Chennai, there’s a village of 186 people who are referred to as the Gypsies. These people are marginalized, considered to be the lowest members of Indian society–untouchable according to some Indian communities. They are popularly called Narikuravars, or nomads. Most are illiterate, uneducated, and marry among themselves. […]

News Digest – Hiring Again

It’s a common belief that the best strategy for employee retention is to pay your employees more than any other company would. However, according to this article out of CIO, this is not as much the case as it used to be. According to Computerworld’s 2014 IT Salary Survey, the softer factors of workplace life are playing […]

Tech Talent Grocery Games

So you’re shopping around for new IT talent. Did you remember to make a shopping list? Yes? Well take another look at it in a second. The last thing you want to do is make a bad hiring decision. Normally, hiring takes around 56 days, and a bad hire can cost you 30% of your […]