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Chudovo |
Freelancers |
In-House Employment |
Large Outsourcing Companies |
Response time |
The response time within 1h at working time |
Freelancers discuss core time with the client but do not always keep it due to various reasons |
Fast response time which depends on internal processes |
Low response time |
Amount of projects developers work on |
The hired developer is assigned to the customer project in full-time (8 hours per day) or part-time mode. During the working time, the developer works solely on the customer’s project |
As a rule, freelancers can have multiple projects at the same time, and different customers |
The developer works on internal company projects |
The number of projects depends on the company’s processes |
Recruitment costs |
Chudovo takes no payment for the recruitment service and ongoing HR activities throughout the project |
Customers hire freelancers on their own, which is time-consuming, or hire agencies with a bonus payment for the services provided |
The customer has in-house employed recruiters or pays for the services of a recruiting agency |
Typically, the customer pays a recruitment fee. |
Time needed to hire |
From 1 day to 2 weeks, depending on the availability of the software engineers |
The process is rather fast, often such a hire can be conducted in a hurry without thorough skills checks |
The process is rather long |
Depends on the company’s processes |
Taxes |
No taxes for the customer |
Depends on arrangements |
The customer pays taxes for the employees |
Depends on the contract |
Workplace organization |
No costs for the customer |
Depends on arrangements |
The customer is responsible for the employee’s workplace organization |
Depends on the contract |
Development speed |
1.5x-2x faster due to Agile, adherence to development best practices, using AI tools |
Depends on the success of the hiring: from successful cooperation to delaying the completion of tasks and the disappearance of the freelancer |
Typically, low or medium speed |
Depends on the company’s processes |
Software development costs |
Predictable costs and budget for the software development. The cost of hiring Chudovo is lower in comparison to other models as there are no costs for the overhead |
Depends on arrangements. Sometimes, arise issues related to delaying the completion of a task and costs increase |
Higher costs |
Higher costs |
Team scaling |
Chudovo can fastly scale the team due to its large experience, bench, recruitment, and tech lead network |
Searching for additional resources by the customer is time-consuming, often the freelancers cannot be available full-time for the project. |
Typically, long-term process |
Depends on the company’s processes and available bench |
Team management |
Team management can be on the customer’s side or our side. All developers have clear working hours and core time of availability for communication, work, and fast solving of unexpected project challenges. |
Team management is always on the customer’s side. The management is more complicated due to the big load of freelancers, their work on multiple projects, different availabilities, etc. |
Team management is on the customer’s side. |
Team management is on the customer’s side or the service provider’s side. |
Quality of the delivered code |
High quality of the software solutions due to the experience, executed projects, top professionals, well-established testing and development processes, clear KPIs measurements, following code conventions, and best practices. |
Quality depends on the freelancer’s experience, skills, and attitude to the project. Sometimes freelancers don’t care about the quality of the code and its impact on the whole system. |
Typically, medium quality. The reason is – best practices and dev code testing can be ignored. |
Depends on the company’s processes. |
Soft skills |
Along with technical competencies, our recruiters thoroughly check the soft skills of developers and identify the engineer’s ability to work effectively in the team. Besides, our company improves developer’s soft skills and has guidelines to follow. |
Soft skills depend on the freelancer and sometimes can be verified after starting the work. |
Soft skills depend on the employee and sometimes can be verified after starting the work. |
Depends on the company’s processes. |
Long-term availability |
We have a client-centric approach with a focus on long-term cooperation. Our recruiters and HRs take over the processes, starting from the initial candidate search up to developer onboarding and ongoing support during the work on the project. If there is a need for developer substitution due to the engineer’s reasons or request from the customer, the process with our team support goes smoothly ensuring continuous work on the project and knowledge transfer to another team member. |
Typically, freelancers have multiple projects and are involved in the short-term perspective. They cannot guarantee long-term work on the project. Usually, they do not maintain project documentation. As a result, each next freelancer on the project needs more time for project onboarding and understanding business logic. Also, there is a possible scenario of the sudden disappearance of the freelancer. |
It is not known at what point an employee may decide to change jobs. This can be both a short-term job and a long-term collaboration. |
Depends on the company’s processes. |
Project support after solution delivery |
We also provide application maintenance and support services on a monthly basis. |
Freelancers are more focused on completing short-term tasks and after finishing a certain scope of work may not be available to continue supporting the application on an ongoing basis. |
A specific employee is available to support the application as long as he works for this company. |
Possible, higher costs. |
Transition of the IP rights |
Before starting the cooperation between the customer and Chudovo, the service agreements, where intellectual property rights belong to the customer. |
Depends on the signed agreement. |
Depends on the signed agreement. |
Depends on the signed agreement. |
Industry-specific expertise |
Chudovo has experience in project implementation for the following industries: healthcare, retail, finance, telecom, logistics, media, traveling, manufacturing, and education. |
Depends on the freelancer. |
The employee can have no experience in the employer’s company branch and in this case the company needs to spend additional costs for learning. |
Depends on the company. |