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Seems like a great idea! How do you keep the engineers feeling engaged to the team and the company after they are hired? Especially now with remote work as the main option.

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This is tricky indeed, but something we keep at the front of mind and is very important to us. We have local offices and local teams solely focused on team engagement and happiness. We even have a community happiness manager. We have spent the last 4 years creating a community in every location we have an office with the sole focus of offering support, friendship, guidance, and mentors. Our goal is to help each team member feel like a core stakeholder on their US team. Another way of doing this is we're not afraid of firing customers. We don't let our customers treat our developers like second-class contractors. If that happens, we have a clause in our contract that we can terminate the relationship.

Companies have a few avenues to help with this. The Astro dashboard lets the US company sponsor meaningful perks that value teammates and really make a difference with retention and wellbeing; Bonuses, health insurance, gym memberships, education resources, access to co-working or offices for the team, even coordinate hard to get equipment like Macbooks, Airpods.

We can even coordinate travel and off site retreats to really help the team feel like one. Finally, our platform keeps US companies accountable for things like regular salary reviews and career paths. All the perks in the world won't matter if that's not in place.

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