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> When it was difficult to hire, we considered outsourcing engineering work to an external dev shop.

Outsourcing and remote hires are two completely different things.

This. I expected the 'Remote Hires' section would discuss why they needed a local dev, and why a virtual/home-based hire would not work. This section should have been named 'Outsourcing' - since that is what they actually discuss in that paragraph.

Indeed, hiring a fulltime offsite employee is very different from outsourcing to a 3rd party.

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