How to Choose a Nearshore Recruitment Partner in Brazil
Eight questions to ask before you hire a recruitment partner in Brazil: technical vetting, English testing, fee model, guarantee and what they won’t do.
Eight questions to ask before you hire a recruitment partner in Brazil: technical vetting, English testing, fee model, guarantee and what they won’t do.
Brazil has become one of the top destinations for US and international companies building distributed engineering teams, driven by timezone overlap, a deep technical talent pool, and cost that’s competitive without sacrificing seniority. But hiring across a border comes with real questions: legal structure, actual cost, culture and process. This guide brings together everything HUNT […]
This article is part of our Complete Guide to Hiring Tech Talent in Brazil. Hiring your first Brazilian developer looks straightforward until you hit the details: contract structure, technical vetting, payment, compliance. Here’s the process broken into steps, plus the points where foreign companies most often get stuck. Step 1: Define the Role and Hiring […]
This article is part of our Complete Guide to Hiring Tech Talent in Brazil. Technical skill and timezone overlap solve most of the practical hiring problem — but working well with any distributed team also means understanding how people communicate, give feedback, and expect to be managed. Here’s what tends to differ, and what doesn’t, […]
This article is part of our Complete Guide to Hiring Tech Talent in Brazil. Cost is usually the headline reason companies look offshore. But the hidden cost of a 12-hour timezone gap — delayed standups, async-only collaboration, week-long feedback loops — often erases whatever was saved on an hourly rate. Brazil solves this differently than […]
This article is part of our Complete Guide to Hiring Tech Talent in Brazil. If you’re a foreign company hiring in Brazil for the first time, two acronyms show up almost immediately: PJ and CLT. They are the two dominant ways tech talent gets hired in Brazil, and not understanding the difference is one of […]
This article is part of our Complete Guide to Hiring Tech Talent in Brazil. Cost is usually the first question, and the most misunderstood one. Brazilian tech salaries vary a lot by role, seniority and city, and the number on a salary survey is rarely what an international company ends up paying. This guide gives […]
This article is part of our Complete Guide to Hiring Tech Talent in Brazil. If you’re a US company scaling engineering headcount, you’ve probably weighed offshore hubs in Eastern Europe or South and Southeast Asia against nearshore options closer to home. Brazil has become one of the main nearshore destinations for US tech teams, and […]