Cost Comparison

SG Senior SG Junior VN Senior VN Junior VN Junior

Salary (SGD) $4000 $2500 $2000 $800 $800

Futureworkz Levy* 0 0 $1000 $700 $500**

Rental/Utility/etc $350 $350 0 0 0

Benefits $100 $100 0 0 0

Culture ? ? 0 0 0

Supervision ? ? 0 0 0

Total $4450 $2950 $3000 $1500 $1300

Team Total $7400 $5800

* Levy may be adjusted on a yearly basis ** $500 per coder thereafter

• Fixed - Macbook Air

• Fixed - 1 month salary deposit

• Yearly - 13th Month Bonus

• Yearly - Salary Review (10%-20% increase)

• Yearly - Company Trip (around $300 per developer)

Fixed & Yearly Costs by Client

• Your Own Offshore Development Team

• Your developers only work for you, no other projects

• An account executive to facilitate communications

• Futureworkz supervises, grows and nurtures your developers

• Futureworkz provides all necessary infrastructure

Futureworkz Offshore Development Team

• Recruitment of CVs (Job ad, Ruby meetup, etc)

• Interview + Technical test @ Futureworkz Office

• Employment contract

• 2 months probation

• Confirmation of candidate

Hiring Process

• Ramping up of coder

• Pair programming and intensive code review

• Fixed levy of $300 per pax per month

• Salary to be paid by client

• No refund of salary & levy if the candidate is not good

• An assessment report will be given to client before confirming/terminating the candidate

Probation Process

• Work in Futureworkz office with provided table & chair

• Follow practices as per http://playbook.futureworkz.com (Git/TDD/Code Review/Presentations)

• Follow all policies of Futureworkz

• You cannot impose additional policies on developerseg. allowing developer to work from homeeg. cash incentiveseg. over-time

• Futureworkz reserves the right to terminate the developer

Confirmed Developers

Your developers are treated the same as

Futureworkz developer

• Your team can break away from Futureworkz when you are ready

• Confirmation on manager for Vietnam

• Briefing on developer culture and practices

• Advices on setting up company and office

• Confirmation with team on company switch

• No more monthly levy to Futureworkz!!

Breaking free

• Creating excellence developer culture and skills

• Enabling successful startups and softwares

Our Purpose

• Can't pay for good developers

• Can't attract good developers

• Can't supervise developers' productivity

• Can't keep good developers

Pains of Getting a Development Team

• Don't know where to start

• Lack of knowledge in hiring legislation, salary obligations, company setup

• Lack of understanding in local culture

• No resources in office, equipments, etc

• Lack of capacity to handle admin (company trip/dinner/police)

• Don't have a SG managerial presence

• Don't know how to hire/manage/grow/retain developers

• Don't know the foreign language

Pains in Offshore Hiring

• 5 years in Vietnam

• Hired over 60 staffs + Interviewed over 100 candidates

• Local knowledge of Vietnam and Vietnam law compliance (Social insurance/police/legal documents)

• Design-y office space with parking space + meeting rooms

• Effective hiring process of developers

• Great developer culture and best practices (Git/TDD/Code review/etc)

• Great learning exposure (Ruby meetup/tea break presentation/etc)

• World-class culture and influence

• Organising company benefits (Monthly dinner/Yearly trip)

• Singaporean managerial presence & monitoring (Tracking/late/leaves)

Futureworkz Vietnam Knowledge

Our Culture Our Thinking Our Practices

http://playbook.futureworkz.com