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We recently helped a startup build their remote engineering team by leveraging our teams in Eastern Europe and India. The process taught us valuable lessons about global talent strategy. For this early-stage company, the challenge wasn't just finding engineers – it was finding the right mindsets for their development phase: Our Eastern European developers brought strong "0→1" thinking – comfortable with ambiguity, skilled at architectural decisions, and able to work without perfect specifications. They aligned with US hours, creating seamless collaboration with the core team. The Indian team excelled at "1→10" execution – rapidly iterating on established directions and scaling systems efficiently. They maintained several hours of US overlap, ensuring continuous progress across time zones. What made this work wasn't just technical skills, but the deliberate matching of thinking styles to different aspects of product development. We carefully vetted each engineer and included the startup in the interview process to ensure both technical and cultural alignment. Keeping these developers on our payroll gave the startup crucial flexibility – they could scale the team up or down as needed without the administrative complexities of international hiring, while still accessing global talent at more sustainable costs. The key insight? Remote engineering isn't just about geographic distribution – it's about finding complementary mindsets that match your specific development stage, while removing the barriers that typically make global hiring difficult. I'm curious how others are approaching distributed team building in early-stage companies. #RemoteEngineering #StartupTeams #GlobalTalent #Rokkun