- What is FTE hiring? How does it work?
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Full time equivalent employee hiring serves you with employees who will work on
contract basis for you. The arrangement is simply like a team of people working
for you outside your office. We can help you recruit from our own team of
programmers or you can choose to have a completely new team.
Once you have the team in place, they will be directly reporting to you. You can
instruct them and manage the project by yourself. The best benefit that you are
getting is that you do not have to worry about the infrastructure as they will
work for you from our office.
- What benefits do I get from an FTE arrangement?
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A team of professional FTE employees will work for you like an extension of your office.
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The knowledge that you have a team that is always available for your project
even at short notice. This is often vital in cases where your customers or
users come back with urgent change requests that need to be implemented under
time pressure.
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You have direct control over the project and the team will directly report to
you
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In an FTE engagement, you get the services of a dedicated team or person. The
biggest benefit is the fact that as the FTE(s) works on your application they
build up specialized knowledge about it. This helps them to come out with
suggestions for improvement, and also increases their productivity as time
passes.
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Another benefit in an FTE arrangement is the IP protection you get for your
software. Unlike in a conventional Fixed price deal, where (in reality) you
only get a license to use the product or at best you get co-ownership of the
code, an FTE agreement is a "work for hire" agreement, and hence all
Intellectual Property developed by your team in India belong solely to you.
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You get the infrastructural facilities of a web development company at minimum
cost and also the security and confidentiality of your information is ensured
by the company.
- What is the skill set available?
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You can hire a team of:
- How beneficial is an FTE arrangement compared to outsourcing on fixed price or
Time Material basis?
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For a project where you have a clear idea of what you want, an FTE arrangement
is the lowest priced option, since there is no reason for your software service
provider to "buffer" or "pad" the quote to manage risk.
- Will your company be
responsible for the people I hire from you?
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Yes. All the people you hire on an FTE arrangement are bound by contract to
follow the company's policies regarding Intellectual Property, security, leave
and other aspects that may affect your work.
- How do you ensure security?
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All our employees are required to sign firm legal contracts to protect your
interests. In addition, our networks are secured via firewalls and antivirus
software, and we keep backups of all the data on our servers to protect against
hardware failure or virus attacks.
- What are the risks that I might have to
face? How do you offer to alleviate these risks?
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When you hire a small team of one or two people, the risk is that the knowledge
is fully in the hands of these two people. This might become a problem.
To avoid this, at your discretion, we shall provide you with more people. For
instance, if your requirement is two people we will put in place four people
diving the work hours. The intention is to spread the knowledge among these
people to avoid concentration of information. The major advantage you have here
is that you get the skills of four at the cost of two.
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In this arrangement the project management is vested with you and you will have to make full utilization of your resource. If sufficient work is not assigned to your hired employee you'll be paying for idle time which will be a loss for you.
To help you manage your hired employee better, we have our operations team who will keep you informed about the work progress. If we find that you are not fully utilizing the time of the employees, we will give you timely alerts.
- Why should I choose your services?
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When you hire from IndiaWebDevelopers, you get highly qualified and experienced
programmers to work on your project
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At the cost of one employee you can get the skilled services of more than two
people.
This makes sure that you get your work done come what may!
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The advantagethat you get with our programmers is that our programmers are more
than just programmers. They are trained to handle the design, analysis and
development of a project. This gives you the advantage of hiring one person
will all these skills which if otherwise you would have to hire three people.
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As a company we assure the quality of our employees. If you are not satisfied
with their work we shall provide you with a replacement.
- How unique is your service from that of your competitors?
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We insist on the quality and credibility of our employees and strive to give you
maximum benefits from our partnership. Our uniqueness lies in how we provide
you with the skilled service of more than two employees when you have to pay
just for one person.
The arrangement works like this. If you want to hire one programmer from us we
would recommend you to opt for the arrangement where we put in two or more
programmers to work for you. The number of hours will be divided among these
programmers. The benefits that you get from this arrangement are:
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You will be paying for just one person but will get the skills of more than two
people
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You do not have to worry that work will suffer if one person goes on leave or
quits from the project
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There is no fear of concentration of information with one person. This provides
security from leak of information about the project
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Work will get done faster and monotony does not creep in
- What are the costs and how do I pay you?
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The cost for the team depends on the type of person and the experience that you
require. A typical qualified programmer will cost $ 2500 per person month, for a minimum FTE period of 6 months. To
simplify the process of making payments, we have arrangements with banks across
North America and Europe through which you can wire transfer the payments to
our account in India.
- Will there be an increase in costs in the long run?
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We assure that there are no hidden costs. The costs will increase only on a
yearly basis which will be with respect to increasing employee costs.
- Is FTE
arrangement a good option for me?
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It depends on what you want to achieve and the level of expertise that you
already have. FTE arrangement is best when you are looking to either augment
your existing team, have a large project that requires dedicated staff, or if
you have a steady stream of maintenance and enhancements requirements for your
software product.
- What is the procedure to initiate a project on FTE? How soon
can I start off?
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The procedure is very simple. Once you fill up this form with your basis
requirement specifications, our Client Engagement Team will get back to you
within 24 hours. Once both parties are convinced about the partnership, we can
start off immediately. The time span between our contact and project start off
could be between one week and one month.
- Do I get a trial run of your FTE
services?
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Yes you can take a paid trial of our services. The period can be from one week
to one month. If you are satisfied we can enter into a full fledged contract.
- What
service level agreements and guarantees do you offer?
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Before the commencement of the project, we sign a Services Contract that
details the responsibilities of each party, the deliverables, pricing,
complaint handling mechanisms and delivery schedule of the projects. All
payments are milestone based and made after you approve of the milestone and
its deliverables.
- How can I make full utilization of the resource allotted to
me?
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You can make optimal utilization of the time and skills of the employee hired by
you with:
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Organized Project Management
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Planned work schedule and assignment of work
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Constant monitoring of work progress
- How do you ensure employee credibility?
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Employees are recruited into the organization through tested methods of
evaluation of capability and integrity. While entering into projects, all the
employees who will be involved in the projects are required to sign
confidentiality agreements with IndiaWebDevelopers. We restrict the access to
client information to limited number of people and employ high level security
systems to their workstations.
- How do you ensure that quality standards are
followed?
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We have our own coding standards defined by our Software Engineering Process
Group (SEPG). But if you would want the team to follow the standards prescribed
by you, we can work that out. Normally if they do not follow the standards that
have been defined, you will not be billed for the time that they take to
correct the code. We understand that we can never fully make up for wasted time
and hence our processes and systems focus on avoidance of such instances.
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I get a daily update on the tasks performed?
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Updates are usually on a weekly basis for any strictly controlled project. But
this is flexible as required by you.
- Will the costs remain standard for
employees with different skill sets like php, asp etc?
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The costs will remain the same for employees of all skill sets
- Who will be
managing the FTE? Me or a project manager?
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In FTE, the project runs completely under your supervision and you will be
managing the project. If you think it will be difficult for you to manage then
you can decide to hire a project manager who will perform the managing task for
you.
- What if my FTE goes on leave?
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If you are hiring a team of more than one person, the tasks can be easily
handled if one person goes on leave. Even if you are hiring just one person we
would recommend you to opt for the arrangement wherein we provide you with two
programmers at the cost of one person. The work hours will be divided among
these people and work will not suffer even if one programmer goes on leave.
- What
happens if I am unhappy with the employee?
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If at any time you feel unhappy with the work of the programmer, you can notify
the issue to our Operations Manager. We will take up the responsibility of
giving you a replacement.
- What can you do if the hired employee leaves? If we
are providing a replacement how do we help in knowledge transfer?
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Our policies ensure that employees serve a two months notice before they
resign. This gives ample time for us to put in a competent replacement. We also
ensure that a smooth transition and knowledge transfer happens.
- What if the
employees need training? Who will bear the training costs?
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IndiaWebDevelopers will bear the costs if any training regarding the software
languages is needed. If any new language or skill is to be acquired by the
programmer for your specific requirement, then you will have to bear the
training costs.
- Will I be able to hire more employees at a later stage?
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Of course you can hire and we would love to provide you with more people.
- What
are the conditions regarding terminating hired employees?
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If you are unhappy with the employee and do not want him to work for you, you
can notify us and we will take immediate steps to take him off the project. We
will also provide you with a replacement ASAP.
- What are my rights regarding
source code, copyright, intellectual property etc?
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All rights regarding the project will lie with you. The arrangement is such
that we are party in providing you with people who will work directly under
you. This gives you the sole ownership of source code, intellectual property,
copyright etc.
- What if the arrangement does not work well?
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If you ever find any problem in the FTE arrangement you can immediately bring
it to our notice. We will take immediate steps to make good for the drawbacks.
- Will
I be able to shift to Fixed Price/T&M based contract if I am not happy with
FTE arrangement?
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There is always a room for flexibility as we intend to provide you with our
best services. If you think FTE is not working well for you we can work out a
better solution, whether it is Fixed Price or Time and Material basis
- Whom do I
contact if I have any grievances regarding the hiring arrangement?
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We shall provide you with the contact details of our Operations Manager and our
CEO. You can directly contact them if you have any grievance.
- What are the
conditions for terminating the contract?
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The terms of terminating the contract will be specified in the initial contract
that we will sign.
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