Before we realized it, our work realities upended into remote solutions. Now that we all accept that there’s no going back to traditional methods, hiring managers are asking, “How do we find the right coders and software developers remotely?”

In this comprehensive guide, we share the secret sauce of how and why we deliver consistently, over and over again.

Remote work was going to be the next trend in work-life. The only missing piece was the right environment. Surprisingly, the pandemic created this environment.

Now that we have seen the future in the remote work environment, we must accept that the old working methods cannot and will not be resurrected, anytime soon at least.

The new work climate has also reinstated the importance of staffing the right manpower. With very limited talent to go around, especially in fields such as technology, healthcare, and retail, organizations now have to change how they operate. It is also very crucial at this point because this is also going to determine which companies lead the industries and the ones that struggle for the decades to come.

This could mean a lot of pressure on hiring managers and project leaders.

There’s one glaring question that recruiters are looking to answer, “How to find kickass remote manpower?”

The major bottleneck that most of them face is the need to sieve the brilliant developers from not-so-great coders. Remote hiring, while saving for overhead costs, can also lead to cost overruns when key responsibilities are handed over to incompetent teams. The quality of the service is affected and so is the final product. There is a distinct demarcation between an experienced developer and a newbie coder but it’s difficult to gauge this difference when you are short on time, resources, and interaction time with the new joiners. You have the idea and the requisite resource, all you need is the right people to drive it. It shouldn’t be this hard.

At Workfall, we completely agree with you. That’s why we are more than happy to do this heavy lifting for you. In fact, the only reason we exist is to make tech hiring super easy for you. Workfall has been an industry leader in finding you kickass, rigorously vetted, remote software developers.

But what makes us such an effective tech hiring partner, you wonder?

We have spent long hours talking to recruiters and coders to find out the gap that separates them and then we spent even longer hours figuring out how to close this gap between your most pressing needs and the best of the best developers in the industry.

And that’s when we arrived at our rigorous 5-step vetting approach to ease the process of hiring. And no, you don’t have to go through these 5 steps to find the best-of-the-best coders. It’s our job. All you need to do is select your requirements on the Workfall website and sit back and relax while we connect you with kickass coders and software developers from all around the world.

In case you want to try out the coveted 5-step Workfall approach yourself, we are revealing it here. Feel free to deploy it yourself to formulate your own sourcing strategy and find the crème de la crème of coders and developers. Also, don’t forget to share your success journey. We’d love to hear it. 

So are you ready for the secret recipe? 

Here goes: 

The Workfall approach to kickass hiring: 

5+ Years of Hands-on Experience

Coding is a skill that takes years of experience and hard work. There’s no stopgap to becoming a kickass coder. One needs to put in hours and effort. After minute research into the industry, we’ve discovered that it takes coders at least 5 years of hands-on experience to become skillful software developers. These skilled developers have a strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software development processes. In the five years of working as coders/developers, they learn and experiment with different problems, solutions, design patterns, architecture, technologies, etc. and it is this learning that equips them with a strong foundation to create and build a product in the most seamless way possible. 

Every Workfall partner possesses a concrete experience in hands-on coding for at least 5 years. This is the minimum requirement to become a Workfall partner. 

But hey, we are just getting started. The meticulous part of finding and assessing the finest coders/developers has not even begun. Hang on to your seats!

Technical Assessment

Experienced candidates that satisfy the minimum work experience requirement of 5 years now undergo a comprehensive technical assessment designed especially to find relevant developers that possess the required subject knowledge and skill to help you forward towards your goals. Our dedicated team of subject matter experts (SMEs) and IO (industrial and organizational)  psychologists design skill evaluations tailored to test the knowledge required for the specific job roles, maintain assessments as changes happen, and also ensure that the questions are interpreted as intended so that the results are unbiased and up to the par with your needs and expectations. 

Coding Assessment

Remember what we promised? The crème de la crème of the coding industry. And we do our due diligence to deliver our very promise to you. So the applicants undergo one more round of skill assessment to prove their mettle. This in-depth evaluation is designed to identify the applicants’ strengths and problematic areas. 

Once the candidate developers prove their command of technical understanding, we go deeper to understand their coding prowess. 

Using coding assessments, we are also able to ascertain candidates’ ability to think and code in the real coding environment, so that the coders you end up hiring fit into the work scenario of your organization and deliver kickass results. 

To ensure that the coders are able to think and solve creatively, our assessments require not only coding skills but also emotional aptitude and the right attitude to solve within the given time period. Most mediocre coders do not even make it to this stage but rest assured if there are any, they are left behind at this stage. So you know that every single Workfall partner is not only a maestro of code but also owns the wherewithal to solve unprecedented problems that may arise in the future. 

How’s that for a contingency plan?

Background Verification

Our prime focus at Workfall is to eliminate every stress or misgiving, you might have regarding your next tech hire. We also recognize the importance of data security and it becomes even more important when you are outsourcing people for select projects. The candidates that have made it this far are skilled programmers but how do you trust their discretion?

Fret not! Our team of experts possesses a fine understanding of potential sources of risks and has strong procedures to mitigate them at the outset. We run a thorough background check with their past employers/partners/concerned parties to ensure their reliability and credibility so that they only contribute to your project in a positive way and enhance the smooth workflow for you. 

Personal Screening

Hiring people is strictly a people business. We don’t see our job as going through the motions to finish a certain task. We know that on both sides of the tech hiring process there are people who want to do what they do best with dignity and integrity. We also recognize this responsibility of bringing both in contact to realize a project, a goal, or a dream in making. Once we have found the right candidate that ticks all the boxes to be a valuable part of your project/organization, we meet them personally over a video interview (Hello! remote work) to maintain this human element of the hiring process and bring them onboard to the world of excellence. 

Workfall Partner

After going through the above-mentioned rigorous process, our Workfall partners have finally made it. We help you not just meet them but also help them become familiar with your values, culture, and work structures. It might seem daunting at first given the nature of the remote work environment but through our experience, we know that a sense of community can be instilled through forthcoming communication, even when it’s done using digital media. We help you in setting expectations and communicate them clearly with Workfall partners so that the possibilities of friction become negligible. After delivering innumerable projects, we can promise you that through accountability, the cultivation of a well-founded work culture, and straightforward communication, work becomes a meaningful experience for everyone involved, regardless of the medium. 

Our focus on building relationships with our Workfall partners also aims to ease your interaction with them. We recognize that a feeling of connection right at the beginning helps in optimizing work relationships and therefore, performances. 

Our existing Workfall partner, Vishnu R shares his views about becoming one says: 

“It’s not easy becoming a Workfall partner, but it’s well worth it. Try your luck, it’s free anyway. If you do make it, you’re gonna love it here.”

We can vouch that each Workfall partner possesses the necessary skills, not just technical but of emotional intelligence as well to ensure that the focus is on the best performance and not on employee management. And it’s through our commitment to delivering every project with a skilled output, we have systems in place to anticipate problems before they arise and solve them. 

It is this proactive approach that has led to high satisfaction with partners we have worked with. Here’s what Lakhveer Singh, CEO at Veertech has to say.

And the most fun part of it all is that you can hire them for only the time period or the project that you require. Yes, it’s that easy. 

While we are on the subject, let’s expand on this process a little, shall we?

Here’s how you hire a Workfall partner: select the desired work profile, decide the technologies/languages that form the software foundation of your product and then you maybe grab a glass of water while we present you with the most kickass coders from over 20 countries around the world. 

Conclusion

Remote work – whether you’re a partner or a client, can still be daunting. After all, we are still learning the ropes of the new world. It’s not easy even initiating this relatively new work process. But we are here to ease you into it. With our perceptive experts and comprehensive systems in place, we understand the downsides of not being face-to-face. We also understand the strengths of working remotely, from the comfort of your space. It allows individuals to explore optimum work opportunities and companies to find and hire talent in an environment where locating talent can be hard. 

Challenges will continue to be there but with creative solutions, we can be better equipped to deal with them.

We hope you enjoyed learning about the rigorous approach of vetting coders/developers at Workfall and can use these insights for better hiring at your own firm. If these seem too tedious to you, you can just hire with us directly. 

You will have access to the best-of-the-best coders/developers out there, as you can see from our plodding standards of becoming a Workfall partner. 

Making purposeful contributions to the remote working environment has been our commitment since our inception and as we go further on this journey, we strive to maintain the quality of service that we provide and make it even better.