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Notes on senior nearshore hiring

Field notes on building senior Data & Cloud teams across borders: honest pricing, real seniority, and the market data behind both.

For US companies

What a nearshore engineer should really cost, how intermediary markups get stacked into your invoice, why the senior talent gap is an experience problem, and how to tell a curated specialist from a resale layer. Every article is written from the operator side: the numbers, the trade-offs, and the questions worth asking before you sign a staffing contract.

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For senior engineers in LatAm

If you build data platforms, cloud infrastructure, or ML systems and want to work with US companies in your own time zone, these articles show exactly how NearCore works: senior-only vetting, USD pay at senior rates, long-term placements, and a bench where engineers are paid well enough to stay.

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