Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions.
PROBEGIN works from Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Croatia, Spain, Portugal and Macedonia.

Yes. Our developers are trained in Agile, SCRUM and Kanban. Our specialists are trained and experienced in project-based working according to the Agile methodology, so they can also join your organization immediately.

Nearshore is suitable for virtually all organizations. Through Corona, we have all adapted to working from home and remotely and have become accustomed to online meetings. As a result, scheduling work and sharing updates through online platforms has become increasingly normal and has removed the biggest barrier to nearshoring. So as long as you English speaks and has an idea of what you want your developer or team to develop, nearshore development is right for your organization.

If you are not satisfied with the performance of a developer, you initially report this to us. We then engage with him/her to resolve the problem. If it appears that the problem is not resolvable between you and the developer, we will within 2 to 4 weeks find a suitable replacement for you.

We have 15 years of experience setting up collaborations and remote teams. We are happy to advise you and share best practices with you.

Of course, our services can be purchased per 1 FTE. For support services, such as DevOps– or QA as a service, a minimum of 16 hours per week applies. A specialist will do the maximum feasible with the hours you purchase. So by taking less hours, you also have less capacity or operational clout to achieve your goals. Do you find it difficult to determine how many hours of support you need for your projects? Then contact us without obligation at
info@probegin.nl
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Of course, we would love to get in touch with you. Depending on your needs, we can indicate whether we can help you with your request or not. This will mainly depend on how many developers, the techniques and how quickly the team needs to start. Feel free to contact us at
info@probegin.nl
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Nearshore is a technical term for supplementing or setting up a team, abroad but close to home. In contrast to Outsourcing or Outstaffing, Nearshore is really a collaborative model between customer and supplier, where our role is to find and retain the specialists you need. Where as the client is responsible for the direction and risks of the project. The emphasis is on collaboration as Nearshore team members work closely with your internal staff in order to deliver your projects quickly and with high quality.

If you are struggling to attract, find or retain developers and need them for your projects, Nearshore is an excellent solution. Instead of constantly falling behind the proverbial net, you get access to 800.000+ highly trained specialists allowing you to get started quickly to realize your projects.

Nearshore ensures that you can get developers that your competitor may not be able to get. So you get a competitive advantage. This also ensures that your project faster can appear on the market, you can be agile stay and get more done in the same amount of time. In addition, Nearshore developers and teams are often more productive than internal employees.

Commonly cited disadvantages of Nearshore are communication problems, cultural differences, and costs of being able to see and speak to your team in real life. During the onboarding process We discuss with both you and our candidates what cultural characteristics are important to you and what the communication style is like in your company. For example, we only hire people who good English speak and who have good interpersonal skills. In this way, we match each individual to you, your company and corporate culture as best we can.

Yes. We can completely take care of this for you by arranging airfare, visas, and lodging for the period you have your team on your head office want to invite. Before we arrange everything, we will of course coordinate all costs with you. We do not charge a fee for this service, the costs incurred can be paid by you directly.

We have offices in several countries And you are always welcome. You can specify when you would like to visit your team on site. We will help you with everything concerning your stay. If desired, we will pick you up from the airport and take you to your hotel. During your stay, our staff will be happy to help you make your stay as pleasant as possible.

Besides a computer with a camera and the Internet, you don’t need much. Important is to know well what you want develop, using planning software such as JIRA and ensure that there is always enough work for your team.

Our clients often indicate that they like the fact that they can directly connect with Dutch management. In addition, our rates sharpThe customer is customer central and we deliver high quality.

Together with you, we determine which type of person and developer is the best fit for your company and for your project. Based on your needs we will actively search for the suitable candidates. You will, of course, also have an interview with the candidate and determine if you want to work with him or her. As soon as you agree, we will start putting everything in place for you to contract your developer.

Yes. We have many startups helped in the development of their app or platform and brought this to a scale-up. We understand that the approach and way of working together is specific to start-ups and we are flexible to work with you to find a good working method that best suits your journey.

After 15 years of experience with nearshore development, recruitment and talent development, PROBEGIN has developed its own model to attract and test talent. We work with the highest standards, ensuring that on average only 5.7% of people meet the requirements and are actually hired by us.

PROBEGIN solves your vacancy problems and takes care of your company completely by filling and keeping your IT vacancies. This means you never have to worry about staffing and recruiting IT personnel like developers, quality assurance engineers, DevOps engineers and so on. Want to know more about how this works?
Feel free to contact us at
info@probegin.nl
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Because we have the full HR and Recruitment process so you can focus on the business, your product or platform. You no longer have hard-to-fill IT vacancies and you don’t have to jump through hoops to retain developers. In addition, our rates are competitive and you connect directly with Dutch management.

We deliver quality and have a high service level. Our recruitment process stands out from the competition because we are very selective in hiring our candidates and have a well-developed program to retain our candidates.

We have been around 15 years and in those years we have gained a lot of experience with nearshore teams from different different countries. We have translated this experience into our services to best serve you as a customer.

It is important to work with a clear structure and have a good idea of what needs to be developed. Do you work with Agile Scrum, then make sure you respect the rules that go with it. If you prefer to work ad hoc for a short period of time, share this with your team and jointly agree that for the next month, for example, you will work with Agile Kanban want to work. Treating your team as your own and involving them in your own journey will make the collaboration successful.

PROBEGIN takes care of its customers with the services developer as a service and team as a service. This means that PROBEGIN for its customers technical experts available and that they work with our clients on projects. PROBEGIN is responsible for finding and retaining the technical specialists and relieves its clients with the complete HR administration, recruitment, development and continuity. Our clients indicate the type of specialist and level they are looking for and we take care of the rest.

We support PHP, Python, Javascript, C#, C/C++, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript. Within those languages, we support several frameworks, but not all frameworks. If you want to know if we support your desired language and framework, please contact us without obligation at info@probegin.nl.

You can join us for a full-time DevOps hiring for your projects. We additionally offer our customers the opportunity to DevOps as a service purchase from us. Many customers do not require full-time DevOps but see the need for it within their projects. You can purchase this from us on an hourly contract per month basis. DevOps as a service is more expensive than hiring full-time DevOps, though.

Our specialists support three major cloud environments. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. For this they are trained and certified.

You can hire a full-time QA Engineer from us for your projects. Don’t need full-time QA? You can then choose QA as a service. You can purchase this from us on an hourly contract per month basis. QA as a service does tend to be more expensive than hiring full-time QA.

PROBEGIN unburdens its customers with the HR and Recruitment process. We do not unwind on risk and progress of projects because we do not take your project fixed fee. So we make sure that you always have the right people working in your project, that they work on the tasks you give them.

You may choose to hire people from our vacation service pool hire to ensure continuity of your projects. You do need to indicate this well in advance so that we can make sure you get replacement. We charge €5.00 per hour on top of your regular rate for this service, and you must do this at least 4 weeks in advance.

Of course, our services can be purchased per 1 FTE. For support services, such as DevOps– or QA as a service, a minimum of 16 hours per week applies. A specialist will do the maximum feasible with the hours you purchase. So by taking less hours, you also have less capacity or operational clout to achieve your goals. Do you find it difficult to determine how many hours of support you need for your projects? Then contact us without obligation at
info@probegin.nl
.

We have Senior Architects who can advise on your project. This can be in the form of a workshop where we can work with you, align your needs and look into your current project(s). Here often come interesting and, of course, non-binding findings.

For fixed fee or short term projects we are not the right partner. Our service model focuses on long-term relationships, where continuity and quality are key. During the collaboration, of course, you can have your developers carry out as many short projects as you like.

We do not provide services for fixed projects. PROBEGIN is particularly focused on long-term and serving our customers with stability and Quality.

PROBEGIN has a comprehensive and unique recruitment process. This is optimized by thousands of interviews and is the foundation for the quality we stand for. Each candidate goes through a funnel of interviews, tests and background checks, zooming in on the technical skills, personality, aptitude for cooperation, communication skills and interpersonal skills. The candidate should be a good fit with our customers and of course with our company itself.

Together with you, we determine which type of person and developer is the best fit for your company and for your project. Based on your needs we will actively search for the suitable candidates. You will, of course, also have an interview with the candidate and determine if you want to work with him or her. As soon as you agree, we will start putting everything in place for you to contract your developer.

We do not offer fixed fee projects to and do not traditionally work on a project basis. This is best done through a Digital Agency have it done. The nuance here lies mainly in the fact that we don’t want to conceive and develop and build your project for a fixed fee. This is a different business model where there is a higher hourly rate and a different approach to work. The risks of the projects lie with us at a higher project hourly rate and we want to avoid mixing up the models. We have therefore chosen to focus purely on nearshore with our services, because we are the best at it.

You can work from 1 FTE come to us. If you purchase 1 developer, but also need assistance for DevOps and Quality assurance, you can hire those disciplines separately starting at 16 hours per week. So this is only possible if you are already hiring at least 1 FTE on a Nearshore basis.

A freelancer must have at least 3 clients per year and this does lead to some not so nice situations. Consider conflicts of interest, priority conflicts, and limited availability when needed. In addition, it is hourly rate a lot higher than at Nearshore. For a good freelancer, you’ll quickly pay € 90 up to € 120 per hour.
Hiring freelancers obviously has its advantages, just as Nearshore has its pros and cons. PROBEGIN’s developers do not work for other clients and the cooperation is focused on the long term. This allows us to continuity guarantee, especially in situations of illness, vacation or change of specialist. We provide the same quality specialists between the € 30 and € 55 Euro per hour.

Our rates start at €30,- per hour for a junior and go up to €55,- per hour for an experienced senior. Rates are adjusted 1 time per year if the programmer performs well and grows in his or her career. Inflation and development of the specialist is charged 1 to 1.

If you are not a product owner in your organization, you will need to invest in this. You can also outsource this role to us as a specialist, however, this does not alter the fact that you remain responsible for the direction and management of your projects. You don’t need to make any further investments.

You do not incur any additional costs For setting up your team. There are no hidden costs. It is an all inclusive fee per hour.

No. You always calculate everything hourly off at a full-time commitment. The hourly rate includes all of our costs, including vacations and vacation hours for the developer. If you have temporarily less work, you can reduce the size of the team. You can change this once a year and it will not affect the duration of the agreement. There is a 2 month waiting period when changing team size.

We always invoice the commitment that was agreed upon. Normally these are the hours worked on a full month basis.

Overtime will be coordinated in advance. Do you have a deadline and want the team to work more hours than the agreed commitment? This is often not a problem, the overtime will be charged to the following month.

Depending on your requirements, it takes on average 2 to 4 weeks To assemble your team and get it operational. Often there is a developer or team immediately available at short notice, so you can also start quickly.

If your expertise need and you are struggling to find or retain it locally due to market competition or if you need a flexible shell around your core team, then nearshore can be a solution solution for you.

We take care of the personnel administration, recruitment, training & development, onboarding and off-boarding, personal coaching. We also offer excellent primary and secondary conditions for developers, so you can focus on what’s most important to you.

If you are not satisfied with the performance of a developer, you initially report this to us. We then engage with him/her to resolve the problem. If it appears that the problem is not resolvable between you and the developer, we will within 2 to 4 weeks find a suitable replacement for you.

We are responsible for providing specialists on your open positions. This means that you outsource a work spot to us and we make sure it is always occupied. If a developer decides to work somewhere else, we will provide a replacement. If a developer becomes ill for an extended period of time or is pregnant, we will provide a temporary replacement.

Hours not worked will not be billed. In case of illness, we apply 2 days of paid waiting period. Thereafter, we do not bill those hours until he or she is better. The developer may choose to make up those hours later by working overtime.

You may choose to hire people from our vacation service pool hire to ensure continuity of your projects. You do need to indicate this well in advance so that we can make sure you get replacement. We charge €5.00 per hour on top of your regular rate for this service, and you must do this at least 4 weeks in advance.

If you are not satisfied with the quality or work of a developer, we will free of charge replace.

Our developers do not work for multiple clients simultaneously, with the exception of DevOps and QA as a service, as this is not a full-time position in some projects.

PROBEGIN has a comprehensive and unique recruitment process. This is optimized by thousands of interviews and is the foundation for the quality we stand for. Each candidate goes through a funnel of interviews, tests and background checks, zooming in on the technical skills, personality, aptitude for cooperation, communication skills and interpersonal skills. The candidate should be a good fit with our customers and of course with our company itself.

For each specialist in your team we draw up a development plan at. In this, we focus on communication and working together, technical skills and knowledge development. For each developer, this personal development plan is customized and you also have a say in what goes into the plan.

During the introductory meeting, together we form a picture of your needs and wishes regarding the developer you are looking for. Our recruitment team will then get to work immediately to find your ideal candidate. We only present candidates who have fully passed our process. If you agree to work with the candidate, we will ensure that the onboarding process starts immediately where we will advise and support you in setting up the work environment.

That’s the guarantee PROBEGIN gives you. Every developer with us goes through an extensive recruitment process, where both technical knowledge and experience is tested by our experienced seniors and architects, but also the personal qualities are tested as well.

After 15 years of experience with nearshore development, recruitment and talent development, PROBEGIN has developed its own model to attract and test talent. We work with the highest standards, ensuring that on average only 5.7% of people meet the requirements and are actually hired by us.

Depending on your requirements, it takes on average 2 to 4 weeks To assemble your team and get it operational. Often there is a developer or team immediately available at short notice, so you can also start quickly.

You decide what is worked on by the developer you hire from us. As a result, you are always in control and determine your priorities. We advise you with operational processes to work as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Yes. Our developers are trained in Agile, SCRUM and Kanban. Our specialists are trained and experienced in project-based working according to the Agile methodology, so they can also join your organization immediately.

This depends on your own requirements and what programming languages your project needs. We have customers for whom the location from which team members work is very specific and important, with other clients the location is less important, as long as it is not too different in terms of time-zone. The locations from which we provide our services never have more than 1 hour time difference for European customers. All of our developers speak good English.

This often happens because the task is too big, not quite clearly specified or work comes in between. It also sometimes happens that a developer thinks something is a day’s work, but runs into problems that were not anticipated. This is and remains the customer’s risk. Do you have help If you need help specifying tasks more clearly for your developers, we can run a workshop for give. The other way around is of course also possible, that a developer finishes faster than expected. This is then your benefit.

The developer will be hired by us for 40 hours made available. For the other 10 hours, he or she can provide for you a training follow or work on something that he would not normally have time for, such as writing documentation. We recommend always working ahead enough so that there is always work, perhaps from a subsequent sprint, that can be worked on.

Hours not worked will not be billed. In case of illness, we apply 2 days of paid waiting period. Thereafter, we do not bill those hours until he or she is better. The developer may choose to make up those hours later by working overtime.

Yes. We can completely take care of this for you by arranging airfare, visas, and lodging for the period you have your team on your head office want to invite. Before we arrange everything, we will of course coordinate all costs with you. We do not charge a fee for this service, the costs incurred can be paid by you directly.

We have offices in several countries And you are always welcome. You can specify when you would like to visit your team on site. We will help you with everything concerning your stay. If desired, we will pick you up from the airport and take you to your hotel. During your stay, our staff will be happy to help you make your stay as pleasant as possible.

Besides a computer with a camera and the Internet, you don’t need much. Important is to know well what you want develop, using planning software such as JIRA and ensure that there is always enough work for your team.

Overtime will be coordinated in advance. Do you have a deadline and want the team to work more hours than the agreed commitment? This is often not a problem, the overtime will be charged to the following month.

You can communicate with your team through your favorite communication platform. This could be Skype, Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

You are responsible for the course and direction of your project. Do you have a project manager needed then you can hire them from us. By hiring a project manager from us, you stay well informed about progress but you remain ultimately responsible for the turnaround time and budget of your project.

We work with the various systems and are flexible in this. This can be done, for example, with JIRA. Would you rather go with Asana, Gitlab or work on another platform then of course you are free to choose this. You are and will remain the owner of this system and therefore also manage the rights of the scheduling system.

Our developers do not work for multiple clients simultaneously, with the exception of DevOps and QA as a service, as this is not a full-time position in some projects.

At the start of the cooperation advise and guide We’ll do our best to get you up and running quickly and smoothly. During our collaboration, we jointly evaluate performance and results quarterly. If you or your team is going on a business trip, we will take care of everything by preparing and arranging everything.

Yes, we regularly organize workshops for our customers to map out what it takes to get started with Nearshore. Want to know more? Feel free to contact us at
info@probegin.nl
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Yes, you always have direct communication with your team. We are not involved in the daily stand-ups or directing your developers. Do you run into issues we are of course available to advise.

During the introductory meeting, together we form a picture of your needs and wishes regarding the developer you are looking for. Our recruitment team will then get to work immediately to find your ideal candidate. We only present candidates who have fully passed our process. If you agree to work with the candidate, we will ensure that the onboarding process starts immediately where we will advise and support you in setting up the work environment.

Safety is paramount in our collaborations. We work for software security companies and therefore have security high on the agenda. In addition to contractual agreements, we also offer infrastructure capabilities to ensure safety.

Contractually, PROBEGIN ensures that upon payment of our invoices, the intellectual property is automatically transferred.

Each employee at PROBEGIN signs an NDA and we sign a mutual NDA with you. This guarantees that all agreements we make with each other are clear and the developer working for you knows exactly what the agreements are.

You can join us for a full-time DevOps hiring for your projects. We additionally offer our customers the opportunity to DevOps as a service purchase from us. Many customers do not require full-time DevOps but see the need for it within their projects. You can purchase this from us on an hourly contract per month basis. DevOps as a service is more expensive than hiring full-time DevOps, though.

Our specialists support three major cloud environments. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. For this they are trained and certified.

In addition to signing NDAs with each candidate, we also have several options in terms of infrastructure to ensure security, such as your own private VLAN on our network, VPN connections and PKI tokens.

Research has shown that in direct costs you get between 20% and 45% can save. In addition, you can get more projects realize and, for example, go to market faster because you don’t have a shortage of personnel because of our cooperation. We see more and more IT companies who value having experienced specialists more than specifically saving money.