SHORE teams

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Recruitment manager of Seven Principles

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Enabling Your Digital Business: For Seven Principles, headquartered in Cologne, this means being at your side and realizing your digital business models. Our three subsidiaries, Seven Principles Solutions & Consulting GmbH and Seven Principles Mobility GmbH, have committed themselves to make your business more sustainable and digital. We accompany you in your digital transformation. Get to know our subsidiaries better. With around 400 colleagues, several locations in Germany and throughout Europe, we provide innovative IT solutions that stand for the high quality of our excellent service.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SHORE teams to accomplish?

• We would like to be able to find suitable talent quicker
• We needed specialised tech talent
• We needed seamless integrations to current teams

SOLUTION

How did you find SHORE teams?

Online Search

Why did you select SHORE teams over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from SHORE teams were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Our company faced the daunting challenge of recruiting nearshore talent quickly while ensuring a high level of expertise, particularly in the telecom sector (Telco). We required specialized professionals for our ongoing projects, but finding reliable candidates with the exact skill sets we needed proved to be a significant hurdle. We sought a partner who could provide dedicated resources capable of seamlessly integrating into our team and meeting tight deadlines.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

With ShoreTeams' support, we were able to reduce recruitment time dramatically and maintain a consistent workflow without the usual bottlenecks. The quality of work and the level of expertise brought in by their professionals significantly improved our team's efficiency and project outcomes.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Their team demonstrated a proactive approach throughout the process, ensuring that everything was handled efficiently and professionally. Key aspects like clear timelines, regular updates, and quick resolution of any issues stood out.

What was your primary form of communication with SHORE teams?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What stands out most about SHORE teams is their ability to combine speed with precision. Their capacity to quickly source highly specialized talent tailored to our Telco needs, without compromising on quality, was truly impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SHORE teams could have done differently?

Although the professionals integrated smoothly into our team, a more structured onboarding process, such as detailed handover documentation or introductory sessions, could have accelerated their ramp-up time even further.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder of an automotive company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Innovative start-up creating a world-class Customer First Mobility platform for the automotive industry, based on trusted Salesforce technology.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SHORE teams to accomplish?

• Hire a specific resource - a Rust developer
• Hire a Flutter developer
• Do this is a short time frame and at the level we need them.

SOLUTION

How did you find SHORE teams?

LinkedIn

Why did you select SHORE teams over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from SHORE teams were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We needed two mid-level developers to be the start of our nearshore team. One Rust developer and one Flutter developer. Both to work under supervision of our in-house tech lead.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We found 4 magnificent Flutter developers within 2 weeks. The Rust developers were found within 4 weeks.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Yes, SHORE kept me updated in each stage of the process. Came up with candidates, scheduled interviews and gave valuable advice.

What was your primary form of communication with SHORE teams?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

SHORE teams came up with an impressive list of candidates, and most of them were spot-on and well within our budget.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SHORE teams could have done differently?

I knew Rust would be more difficult. They could've had a bigger talent pool in that, however I understood upfront it's not one of their core technologies.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Sr. Director of an ecommerce company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Powering over 1,000 direct-to-consumer brands, retailers, and media publishers worldwide, we bring TikTok-like interactive video experiences to your own websites and apps. We enable customers to create and host native, shoppable video content for engaging product discovery, seamless shopping experiences, and a deeper emotional connection with consumers.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SHORE teams to accomplish?

Firework needed specific SAP Commerce Cloud talent to do some implementation with our platform.

SOLUTION

How did you find SHORE teams?

Online Search

Why did you select SHORE teams over others?

Expertise in the needed field.

How many teammates from SHORE teams were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We're connecting Firework's platform to several commerce platforms. Therefore we need experts to do so.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We found an outstanding SAP specialist through the network of SHORE teams. We didn't know this one upfront (it's a partner from Europe), so we're very happy with the solution - a very professional 1,000+ SAP specialist - they found for us.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Yes, absolutely. In fact, they hit the right partner for us in only 1 attempt.

What was your primary form of communication with SHORE teams?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

How they understood what we needed. They've come up with one partner, who is someone we could only dream of.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SHORE teams could have done differently?

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BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Managing Partner of an information technology company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are a full service provider in the field of AFAS Profit. We are a certified AFAS partner and with about 25 AFAS Profit Experts we help organizations throughout the Netherlands to get the most out of AFAS Profit.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SHORE teams to accomplish?

• We'd like to hire a Laravel/PHP developer.
• We'd like to explore nearshoring.
• The developer should work on our application based on AFAS software.

SOLUTION

How did you find SHORE teams?

Referral

Why did you select SHORE teams over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from SHORE teams were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

The developer will work on further development of an application based on AFAS software.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

SHORE teams provided us 5 wonderful candidates. We decided to hire one out of these.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Yes. SHORE teams acted in a matter of hours and came up with candidates which suited our requirement. Within a week everything was set to go.

What was your primary form of communication with SHORE teams?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The enormous speed of delivery was impressive. And their excellent understanding of the market and its potential.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SHORE teams could have done differently?

I would like to know a bit more about how it works when we would like to expand.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of Engineering of (a/an) Healthcare

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We develop and implement innovative eHealth solutions for hospitals. Due to the solid medium-sized financing and good sales situation, we are independent of short-term interests and have a sustainable position in the hospital market.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SHORE teams to accomplish?

• We'd like to hire a strong senior PHP/Symfony developer
• We would like to speed up our hiring process in general
• We're looking for developers with experience in the eHealth industry

SOLUTION

How did you find SHORE teams?

Other

Why did you select SHORE teams over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

What was the size of SHORE teams’ team?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We needed a candidate experienced in PHP 8 and Symfony. Experience in eHealth industry was a plus. Experience in DevOps stack was a plus. Server administration (Linux / Debian / Apache, PHP, MariaDB) . Server virtualization (VMware ESXi / Hyper-V). Mail server (Dovcot / Postfix). SSL Certification (Let’s Encrypt etc.). This team member should preferably be able to lead/guide the team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• SHORE teams came up with some wonderful candidates, I believe 4.
• We interviewed two, both were a great fit.
• We decided to hire the one closest to Berlin. It's a great guy and we're working with him since then.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Yes. Absolutely above expectations.

What was your primary form of communication with SHORE teams?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their quality of candidates and their understanding of our needs are impressive. Personally I've never met a partner company who has had this - at this level - before.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SHORE teams could have done differently?

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BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Director Legal and Compliance of (a/an) Financial services

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

By using our service, our clients always offer their customer a fitting payment solution. Through our 12 payment solutions, client can offer each customer the best possible experience during the payment process. Client can also choose for timesaving or sales-increasing features, to get the best out of their business. Furthermore, client will enjoy real and personal service.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SHORE teams to accomplish?

• Increase productivity
• Add more seniority to the team
• This developer could become the tech lead for our team

SOLUTION

How did you find SHORE teams?

Referral

Why did you select SHORE teams over others?

High ratings, Close to my geographic location, Referred to me

What was the size of SHORE teams’s team?

We hired one.

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We were looking for expansion of our team and would like to bring in a bit more seniority. Therefore we would like to hire a senior VueJS, Ruby fullstack developer. In the long run this developer can become the tech lead of a separate development team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• They provided suitable candidates within a few days
• The process went very smooth
• We hired a developer from Ukraine and are very happy with him.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

We do our own project management. SHORE teams certainly provided the candidate list sooner than expected. And the level of candidates was great.

What was your primary form of communication with SHORE teams?

Virtual Meeting, Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They understood exactly what we needed, why, and when. I could see they do this on a daily basis. True professionals.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SHORE teams could have done differently?

None

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of (a/an) Food & Beverages

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Foodtech company that develops innovative software for personalising online meal inspiration, enabling people to make better food choices for personal health and the world

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire SHORE teams to accomplish?

• We are looking for ambitius developers to be able to anticipate on rapid growth.
• We'd like to hire 2 Python/React devs to start with.
• Devs needed to start by september 2023

SOLUTION

How did you find SHORE teams?

Other

Why did you select SHORE teams over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Good value for cost

What was the size of SHORE teams’s team?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

The developers needed to develop new functionalities for our nutrition platforms. Besides that they should make sure the platform keeps working as expected + help with improving the development pipeline processes.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• SHORE teams connected us to 3 magnificent development partners
• We had online meetings within a week.
• We were very happy with the partner chosen + its quality of development work.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Yes, everything was as expected. The only thing was we ran out of budget for now, so needed to pause the development. At least for a few months.

What was your primary form of communication with SHORE teams?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The deep understanding SHORE teams has of what's needed to be successful when nearshoring was impressive. Their experience stood out and made it much more easy for me to make the right decision. Above that, the pace of their match making process was experienced very positive by my team.

Are there any areas for improvement or something SHORE teams could have done differently?

I would like to explore African devs in the future as well. As far as I remember I didn't get any options for African devs now.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Director Of Product Engineering within the Theatre Group. Our group contains of 50 venues across Britain, the US and Germany. Our ticket site operates in the UK, US and Germany across three brands. I'm responsible for our product engineering within the group.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire SHORE teams, and what were your goals?

Our goal was to build a live entertainment ticket sales platform that widens our distribution channels and inventory types (i.e. not just theatre).

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We made a checklist of conditions, including proximity, flight frequency and work attitude important. English must be excellent. SHORE teams was able to find the perfect partners for us, having direct flight connections to London and an experienced dev team.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Website, inc. white label options, ticketing platform, microservice architecture. Node, React, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, delivery pipelines, full stack engineers. On the data side, Azure, MS SQL, Power BI.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

I was in touch with their head of Sales, the CEO and at partner side with people in similar positions.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Despite COVID hit us badly, we were able to hire the first 3 magnificent developers to start working on this project.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We use Jira and Slack and would like to offshore team to work with that as well.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

I was truely impressed by the speed and quality of SHORE teams' suggestions. I've never heard of them before, but I would certainly love to work with them again.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

There's nothing they need to improve on.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm managing director of the Dutch Postcode Lottery and responsible for all IT and development with the lottery.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire SHORE teams, and what were your goals?

We had the urge to nearshore 40% of our 100+ in-house development team. Developers became relatively expensive in the Netherlands, and therefore I'd like to expand his workload within the current budget. We're aiming to hire initially 3 React developers. The team would be working on an internal UI that allowed specific configurations for the lotteries.

Think of screens for drawing configurations, game round configuration, prize configurations, etc. Currently this portal was built in PHP and we would like to transfer this “one on one” to React. React will talk to REST services of their Core applications via a NodeJS layer.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Our team lead had a preference for Portugal as a development destination. Besides that he’d like to opt for: Spain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia. Since the Lottery is in the charity space, we didn’t want to go for countries where human rights might be questionable. SHORE teams introduced us to 3 partners. One partner - partially from Portugal - stood out. They were well-prepared for the call, have an established organisation and are active in many countries.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We had some strict requirements: The nearshore team should be self-reliant in 1-2 months. There should be a maximum of 0.5 FTE needed to support this team by own developers. The pilot was considered to be successful if the nearshore team:

• is self-reliant in the development, unit testing and documentation after 1-2 month
• has a minimum of support is needed (max 0.5 FTE)
• the total team workload exceeds the load of 4 FTE of our own developers

The team lead core development would like to start working all together from their office in Amsterdam, with a sprint rhythm of 3 weeks. He would like to meet up on location once a sprint. This could be the nearshore team flying over to Amsterdam for a couple of days or some Lottery colleagues flying to the nearshore development center.

Because of this frequency, the location of the nearshore center should be within acceptable distance (max. 1 hour commute) from an airport having a direct connection to Schiphol (max flight time approx. 2.5-3 hours). Also a business hotel should be within acceptable distance from the office (preferrable walking distance).

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We've been in touch with the founders, a backoffice colleague and that was it I believe.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The pilot has been a success and extended. And the partner is ready to grow the Lottery’s nearshore team(s) with additional talent.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We use Jira, Slack as an organisation and work with scrum methodology.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

I really liked how they helped us to find the ideal partner, despite our extensive requirements package. We have experienced the contact as very pleasant.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

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BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of our business in real estate software. We have a platform for the sale of new-built homes for the larger real estate agencies in the Netherlands.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire SHORE teams?

We had a small development team. And were looking to extend the team. We experienced it to be very difficult to find good developers in Groningen (Netherlands). We did in a fact a lot to find the right candidates, but this didn't work out.

SOLUTION

How did you select this agency and what were the deciding factors?

We were already looking for 2 months. When we got in touch with SHORE teams, within one month we spoke to a few companies and had an agreement to start.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

SHORE teams dived into our requirements, came up with a few partners and guided us to find the best one for our situation.

Describe the recruitment process in detail.

SHORE teams had a really good process of selecting the right partner. We found a senior candidate there that was already familiar with the market and tech stack.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?

Within a month we found the solutions we were looking for. A wonderful senior developer having knowledge of our market and in our technology stack. Besides that, and I didn't expect that, the partner added a lot of knowledge and experience. They really improved our methodologies and the way we work. We really loved this external expertise. The productivity is much higher now. Plus: the in-house developers really love this new energy.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

It went very smooth from the beginning.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

I'm impressed with their expertise in software development, the network SHORE teams has and the speed they bring in to extend our development team.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

None