Comparison
Silver.dev vs BairesDev
If you’re hiring engineers in LatAm, the vendor you pick changes the incentives. Here’s a clear breakdown of how we approach quality — and how large, high-volume vendors often operate.
Companies hiring engineers with Silver.dev
See all 46 companies- Cognition
- Ramp
- Nubank
- SpaceXAI
- Scale AI
- Wonderful
- Cashea
- Span
- Scribd
- AirOps
- Canals
- ClassDojo
- Muun
- PairTeam
- Home Vision
- Coperniq
- BrightHire
- Motion
- Securitize
- Greenhouse
- Concourse
- Siena AI
- Agora
- Pasito
- Fuse Finance
- FORM
- Sharecare
- Circle Medical
- AceUp
- TrashLab
- ShiftRx
- Profasee
- Gerald
- Webacy
- Bespoke Post
- Kamipay
- Primo
- DarwinAI
- Interface
- Atlas
- Rebill
- Domu
- Sandbar
- Volt
- Sublime
- FlipaClip
At a glance
A compact comparison
| Category | Silver.dev | BairesDev |
|---|---|---|
| Positioning | ||
| Positioning | Boutique, quality-first | High-volume delivery |
| Pricing mechanics | ||
| Pricing mechanics | Market + ~20–30% | Higher markup (often 40–60%+) |
| Incentives | ||
| Incentives | Pay talent well → retention & performance | Markup pressure can reduce talent pay |
| Screening depth | ||
| Screening depth | Coding + system design + AI interviews | More automation, faster throughput |
| Transparency | ||
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Portfolio signal | ||
| Portfolio signal | Name-brand startups | Mixed / broad client base |
Notes: the BairesDev column reflects common patterns of large staffing vendors (high volume + markup-driven economics). If you have a specific proposal, the best comparison is bill rate vs talent pay, replacement policy, and buy-out terms.
Talent
Quality over quantity: 50%+ global pass-rate
We do coding, system design and AI fluency interviews to assess talent. 64% of our candidates pass our client technical interviews globally.
Cost
Our model: market rates + clear markup
We charge market rates plus a clear markup. The point is to keep incentives clean: pay the talent what it takes to retain them, and keep our economics transparent.
If you want to sanity-check portfolio quality, browse placements and open roles.
Method
Screening: why we do real interviews
Hiring engineers is not a keyword-matching problem. We run structured interviews (coding + system design, and AI-related evaluation where relevant) so you’re not stuck in a “try & fire” loop.
The goal isn’t to slow things down — it’s to increase the probability that the first few candidates are actually strong.
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