The Real Cost of "Cheap" Filipino Engineers: What US Founders Get Wrong (opens in new tab)

The Real Cost of "Cheap" Filipino Engineers: What US Founders Get Wrong I was on a call at 3 AM, staring at a dashboard full of red alerts. The client, a US-based startup founder who'd hired a Filipino dev team to cut costs, was furious. Their flagship product, a SaaS platform, was down, and my team was scrambling to fix it. Turns out, the "cheap" hires had pushed a major update without proper testing, using a library version that had known security vulnerabilities. The fix cost them thousand...