IT recruitment 
 & staffing services

What are the best locations for hiring software developers globally?

As a rule, these are the regions with rich tech talent pools, lower developer salaries than in your home country, and Western-like mentality seasoned with excellent English proficiency. Now, there are two main software engineering oceans like this worldwide: Latin America and Eastern Europe. Together, these regions boast a pool of over 2.5 million seasoned software developers of various tech stacks and levels. For example, the primary IT staffing hubs span Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, with the most buzzing hotspots found in Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Warsaw, Krakow, Kyiv, Bucharest, and Sofia.

What is the most secure, fast, and easy way to recruit software developers in LATAM or Eastern Europe for a tech product company?

A swift and pain-free way to work with LATAM and Eastern European developers is to start cooperation with a professional local IT recruiting firm. Such a partner has a professional team of information technology recruiters and knows how to attract and interview talented coders and persuade them to accept your offers. Moreover, they can perform a full-cycle tech hiring process — from creating ideal candidate profiles and compelling EVPs to screening, interviewing, and managing offers. To step up the recruitment process, they should also provide employer branding assistance to make sure your company and vacancies are desirable to Senior, Lead, and C-level IT talent from LATAM and EE. Fun fact — after almost 8 years of providing this service at Alcor, we’ve established our own IT recruitment records: 15% of vacancies are closed from the first CV, 80% of CVs are approved by clients, 98,6% of candidates successfully pass probation and stay with clients for 2.5 year on average.

What should you pay attention to when choosing a nearshore or offshore IT recruitment agency?

First of all, make sure they have relevant expertise with companies from your industry. Secondly, ensure your potential tech hiring partner has case studies about cooperation with previous clients and unbiased client testimonials on independent platforms like Clutch or Goodfirms. Finally, it’s great to have a call with them first to see how they will satisfy your recruitment and other needs. For example, a good vendor will schedule an IT recruitment consultation for you where they will share a free salary report and analytics on your open positions and tell you about their hiring methodology and pricing! 

How long does it take an IT recruiting agency to hire a software engineer in LATAM or Eastern Europe for my team?

The best-case scenario is when your tech hiring vendor fills a vacancy within 2-6 weeks. When speaking about the team of software developers, it’s great if your IT recruitment agency can hire 5 developers in 1 month, 20 within 3 months, and 100 within a year. At least, this is what we do at Alcor. Additionally, we offer a 3-month candidate replacement warranty.

How much do I need to be involved in the information technology recruiting process if I opt for cooperation with an IT recruiting company?

It always depends on the organizational approach of your tech hiring vendor. If you have a professional partner, you will only be asked to approve blind CVs and interviewed candidates, conduct a technical interview and/or test task, and participate in a final interview. All that part concerning candidate search, job descriptions’ creation and posting, pre-screening, HR interviews, and offer/counteroffer management falls on your partner’s shoulders. Of course, all the decision-making is up to you. Yet, you can always ask your tech recruiting partner to keep you more in the loop and monitor the hiring process via weekly progress reports that they prepare for you. 

What other services does a professional IT recruiting firm provide?

Apart from full-cycle IT recruitment, your tech hiring partner should be able to back you up in other ways or offer a better and more comprehensive solution, don’t you think? We at Alcor have just the right offer — your own software R&D center with IT recruitment, Employer of Record, and 360° operational support. This is basically your own development office in LATAM or Eastern Europe with a professional software team that is completely handled from an operational standpoint. By this we mean that you don’t have to establish a legal entity or deal with other legal & accounting hurdles. You can leave your team’s employment, payroll, taxes, employee benefits, and onboarding/offboarding to us and focus on other important tasks. Plus, we’ll provide extra services that you might need: office lease, equipment procurement, IT infrastructure setup — you name it.  

What is Alcor, and why is it a better long-term alternative to outsourcing or generic EOR platforms?

Alcor builds software R&D centers and hires remote development teams for US and European tech product companies. Since 2017, we’ve been helping our clients scale in Latin America and Eastern Europe, adding 10 to 100 developers each year.

Our solution is designed only for the tech industry:

• hiring in top tech talent markets,
• benefiting from tax incentives for tech, and
• managing all the necessary contracts for tech (NDAs, IP rights protection agreements, etc.).

Alcor lets clients easily track and manage payroll, benefits, and more via its cloud platform, AlcorOS.

However, unlike other global payment platforms, our clients don’t just get robotic support; they work with a dedicated human Customer Operations manager.

Our solution is 50% more affordable than hiring in the US or tech outsourcing, and we offer custom pricing and volume discounts for even greater savings – no setup or hidden fees.

What services does Alcor provide to clients?

Our all-in-one solution includes tech-focused Employer of Record, full-cycle tech recruitment, and operational support, such as:

• hardware procurement,
• office/coworking leasing,
• insurance provision,
• employer branding,
• HR services,
• remote/office/hybrid strategy support,
• sysadmyn support,
• business/travel visa support,
• stock options & IP agreements – you name it.

We go the extra mile for clients, so they can get everything they need without engaging third parties.

Does Alcor provide a full-cycle tech recruitment service?

Yes. With the help of our 40 in-house tech recruiters and researchers, we hire Silicon Valley-caliber talent from scratch. You can get 5 developers in the first month, 30 in 3 months, and 100 in a year. You get the first CVs of pre-vetted candidates in 5 business days, while one vacancy is typically closed in 2-6 weeks. These are your people from day one who become part of your in-house team and culture, with no buyout process and fees if you later insource.

Which geographies and seniorities can you cover?

We hire top-10% engineers across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Bulgaria – with a focus on senior, lead, and C-level talent. To ensure you get the best talent on the market, we prepare a location strategy and consultation from the start.

What is the quality of your candidates?

To present you with the best candidates, we use an internal database of 253k software engineers and external resources. 80% of the CVs we send to clients are approved; 8 CVs are needed to secure an accepted offer; and 15% of vacancies are closed with the first CV. If a client wants to further improve the quality of the candidate pipeline, we offer an Engineering Manager screening service. As a result, 98.6% of the developers that we hire for clients successfully pass probation.

How long do software developers that Alcor hires stay with clients?

90% of talent that we hire for clients stay with them long-term, while the average tenure of developers is 2.5 years. In case you’re unsatisfied with our hire or vice versa, we offer a 3-month free replacement warranty. What’s more, you can increase the retention rate among your R&D team with the talent retention strategy developed for you by our HR professionals.

What do you get with our tech-focused EOR service?

First of all, you don’t have to spend 3.5+ months setting up your own legal entity and other infrastructure, such as a bank account and a local team, in a new tech market. We’ll hire talent on your behalf right away.

Secondly, our EOR service covers everything: payroll, compliance, benefits, onboarding, offboarding, and other services. We commit to onboarding talent in 10 business days and provide free offboarding.

Last but not least, you’ll hire top tech talent in top tech markets across Latin America and Eastern Europe – with 3.5+ million IT specialists and fast-growing tech industries.

But our solution is not just another HR payments platform – with us, you get EOR and tech recruitment from scratch, with full operational coverage in one place.

How do you handle compliance, risk, and data protection?

Alcor acts as a legal shield, ensuring 100% compliance with labor laws in the countries of our operations and IP protection. We protect clients from risks related to worker misclassification, social security, and tax obligations while providing GDPR and CCPA solutions. We also provide the background check service for our clients upon request. What is more, Alcor has a mature policy set consisting of publicly available Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms of Use, Security Policy, and Code of Ethics.

Is Alcor’s pricing transparent?

We don’t have setup fees, tricky rate cards, or expensive pricing wrappers. Also, our model doesn’t presuppose regular cost increases with no visible returns. Instead, we have custom pricing for each client, set and revise individual compensations, and give contractual volume discounts.

Who owns the team and assets, and can we insource later?

You own everything from day one – the team and all procured assets (hardware, software, office/coworking arrangements, and related records). You can insource the team at any time for free, with no buyout or lock-in.

Who manages the team day to day?

You do. We act as the official employer of record (EOR) for compliance and payroll, while decision-making, roadmap, and performance management remain on your side.

What documentation and visibility do we get?

You get full transparency – employment contracts, SLAs, and supporting documentation are shared with you from the start.

How is IP handled, and who can access our code?

IP remains 100% yours, protected by compliant IP rights agreements from day one. Alcor does not access your source code, product docs, or other sensitive materials.

Who bears compliance and other employment-related risks?

Alcor bears 100% of the employment and compliance risks in each country by serving as your legal shield for labor, tax, and regulatory matters.

Who are the clients of Alcor?

Our clients include tech product companies from the US and EU – People.ai, BigCommerce, Grammarly, Sift, Ledger, Pindrop, Chartbeat, BIScience, ChargeAfter, Tubular Labs, and Teladoc – from domains like AI/ML, ecommerce, cybersecurity/fraud prevention, crypto/fintech, media & marketing analytics, and digital health.

Does Alcor have any industry awards, or is it featured in ratings?

Alcor has earned top rankings in the IT & business services, HR outsourcing, and legal outsourcing categories on Clutch, become the #1 HR Services Agency on SuperbCompanies, and won The Legal 500 EMEA Awards. We are also featured on Clutch, TrustPilot, G2, and GoodFirms.

What is the team behind Alcor?

We’re a 100+ in-house team with deep bench strength – 40 tech recruiters and 60 back-office specialists across 8 key locations, with 93% CSAT and a 93% Net Promoter Score. Leadership is hands-on and accessible: Founder & CEO – Dmytro Ovcharenko; COO – Viktoriia Keliar; Director of Technical Recruiting – Kassandra Ruiz; Head of Customer Operations – Oksana Petrus; Head of Legal – Oleh Danylchenko. Supporting leaders include Head of People & Culture – Hanna Koval; Senior Legal Adviser (LATAM) – Gilda Orozco; Country Manager, Mexico – Javier Preciado; plus regional recruiting leads in Poland, Romania, and LATAM for on-the-ground execution.

How do you make cross-region collaboration work – overlap windows, English proficiency, and executive availability?

We run teams across the USA, Latin America, and CEE – covering GMT-7, GMT-6, GMT-5, GMT-4, GMT, GMT+1, GMT+2, and more. That footprint lets us engineer reliable overlap windows: typically 5-8 hours within the Americas or Western Europe, and 2-5 hours between US time zones and CEE with modest schedule shifts. English proficiency runs from intermediate to native, with customer-facing roles staffed at advanced/native levels. For leadership accessibility, we align recurring exec-level touchpoints inside overlap windows and keep async updates flowing so decisions don’t wait on the clock.