Do you want to outsource to Romania? We’ll take a look at the key aspects of this choice. A little spoiler: the IT industry is doing great in Romania!
Every company faces an important choice at some point: this choice involves the hiring process. Sometimes, projects become complex. A need for a specialist who would be able to work with some programming language outside of your expertise can arise. In this light, outsourcing is a strong option. In this article, we want to orient you regarding outsourcing IT services in Romania.
Romania is a rather big and promising market today. This European country invests much in its IT sector. The data shows that the market size for software projects is large. Considering that the Romanian economy is booming, with the country having almost no years without growth, it’s a significant investment.
Even among top choices in Central and Eastern Europe, Romania has earned a reputation as a top choice for IT outsourcing and high-quality software development with successful startups like UiPath and Bitdefender, now being a well known name around the world.
So what is it about Romania’s technology professionals that makes them some of the best in the business? Here are 17 reasons why more and more businesses in the U.S. and Western Europe are choosing to partner with Romania’s robust IT outsourcing sector.
1. Skilled IT Professionals
Romania’s developer community is passionate about coding, and they start honing their skills early. Romanian students consistently rank high in international coding competitions, including Google Code-in, Google Jam and the Central European Olympiad in Informatics.
Romanian software developers take a proactive approach to career development by staying up to date with the recent technology trends. As members of outsource teams, Romanian’s IT professionals share their knowledge of the latest technologies, tools, libraries and frameworks, which increases efficiency and speed teamwide.
2. Strong Work Ethic
Romanian developers are hardworking, innovative and competitive. They pride themselves on conducting business with integrity, making honest estimates and delivering the most effective and economical solutions to save their clients both time and money.
3. Broad Knowledge Base
One of the key reasons organizations outsource IT is to gain access to specialized knowledge and broad technical expertise.
Romanian’s IT outsourcing community is known for code quality and is well-versed in cutting-edge technologies, such as cloud services, IoT, cybersecurity, and IT Infrastructure. Romanian software developers are also highly skilled in creating algorithms, JavaScript, front-end programming (e.g., React or Angular), and back-end programming (e.g., PHP, Java, or . NET). They are also skilled practitioners of Agile methodologies. That’s why many tech businesses are choosing to set up software development teams in Romania.
4. Flexible, Collaborative Culture
Romanian IT specialists are known for their flexibility and agility, as well as their excellent communication skills, which makes them ideally suited for distributed outsourcing teams. They are comfortable working in remote work environments and have perfected the art of collaborating efficiently over distance.
English is taught in Romanian schools, and the country is ranked “very high proficiency” in English skills, so there is never a communication gap that can occur between the IT outsourcing team and the in-house team.
In addition to the above, we, at StarTech Team, pride ourselves with efficient and productive collaborations with big names like Office Depot, Walmart, Staples and Company.com.
5. IT and Startup Hot Spot
Romania’s IT outsourcing sector is made up of roughly 700 software development companies that employ more than 150,000 specialists. Bucharest, Timisoara and Cluj are the country’s confirmed tech, outsourcing and startup hot spots. Cluj is also called Romania Silicon Valley
According to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, “Now is the perfect time to look into investing in Romania. The region has always had great technology but now they are starting to connect it to the marketplace. Romania is a generation ahead of other countries in the region in understanding the market system.”Romania’s IT ecosystem is also highly attractive for international companies.
6. Dynamically Growing IT Market
At a steady rate of 10 percent a year, the Romanian IT market is rising. It has undergone substantial changes in recent years, and more and more Romanian IT businesses are expanding internationally.
The rapid growth of enterprise-level cloud computing services is another major trend. Those include both the software and infrastructure. IoT, cybersecurity, and all of their sub-sectors are two more areas of growth.
7. US and EU Standards in IP Protection and Data Security
Romania has a transparent legal system. The country abides by the same data protection legislation as the Western European countries and takes IT protection and data security very seriously. As a member of the European Union, it follows the General Data Protection Regulation which is considered a cornerstone in the fight for better privacy and data protection of individuals.
And, thanks to strong ties with the United States, Romanian software development companies are also familiar with the common requirements of their American colleagues, particularly when it comes to intellectual property rights, copyright laws, and data security.
8. Part of the European Union
If your business is located in one of the EU member states, it minimizes the paperwork needed to establish the partnership. Many of the trade barriers are eliminated, and the EU countries work hard to make business partnerships between companies based in different EU states more effective. Due to reduced bureaucracy, companies can concentrate on what is really important: growing their business, increasing productivity, and reducing costs.
9. Cultural and Work Ethics Similarity
Romania is a democratic country, and if your business is based in Europe or the US, you won’t feel any cultural differences. Romanian people work and manage their companies in a similar way to what you can experience in other countries like Germany, UK, France, and the USA.
10. Acceptable Time Difference
Offshore software development is always a challenge. When working with a foreign software development company, you need to make sure that you don’t have communication issues related to a huge time zone difference.
The time zone difference between Central European countries and the US varies from 6 to 9 hours so outsourcing to Romania will feel like working with a local partner whom you can easily reach in just a few hours of traveling. This allows you to have more control over the implementation of your project. Anyway, with the right approach, the different time zone really isn’t that big of a problem.
11. Best Value for Money
Any company would want the best developers but in reality, many companies can’t afford to hire top U.S. developers – that’s why they go overseas. Romania has one of the lowest labor costs in the European Union. In contrast to IT companies from other parts of Europe or the USA, hiring a top-performing outsourcing company in Romania can turn out to be surprisingly inexpensive.
Every business owner understands that outsourcing is not just about choosing the cheapest alternative. What matters is the value that you can get for the money invested. In the end, you want your project to be completed on time by a proficient team that delivers high-quality work.
12. English Proficiency
Fluent English is a standard among Romanian graduates and employees, placing them high in the English-driven tech world so you don’t have to worry about communication problems, which is one of the most significant barriers in the business world. It is worth mentioning that most ICT graduates can also speak some other European languages, like German, French, Italian, and Spanish because of the way education in Romania works.
In addition, the software development services market in Romania is growing very fast due to the strong focus on fields of study like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, so it is relatively easy to find competent software development teams in Romania.
13. Strong Focus on Cutting-Edge Technologies
Romania is home to an ever-increasing number of creative technology start-ups, which are developing at an incredible pace and competing successfully in the demanding markets of the USA and Western Europe. It’s also a nest of innovative and successful tech startups that can compete in the European and American markets. There have been some of the smartest modern-day solutions invented and there will certainly be more.
14. Variety of Outsourcing Services
There are many skilled developers in Romania who specialize in various fields, and they can help you solve different issues at different stages of the product creation process. From UX/UI design, through the early prototype, and MVP, to maintaining a full-fledged product, they can assist you with the whole process of product development.
In addition, you can choose to work with various outsourcing models depending on your current needs. You opt for staff augmentation to expand your internal software development team or ramp up a whole development team in case there are no software developers in-house.
15. Large Skilled Talent Workforce
According to Eurostat, there were 585.000 IT specialists employed in the Romanian market in 2021 and these numbers keep on growing since there are approximately 30 thousand additional vacancies fulfilled each year if we are looking at historical data. Romanian is known for its strong technical education.
16. Big Companies Outsourcing in Romania
Considering all the above pros of Romanian tech companies, it’s obvious that they attract many customers across the world. If you look at portfolios of different software development companies, you can easily find such big names as Microsoft, Dell, Vodafone, Metro Markets, Siemens, Samsung, Generali, Scania, and many others.
The above list proves that there is no industry where Romanian engineers can’t deliver a great solution — Tech, Heavy Machinery, Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, and Wholesale is only a small part of industries that are not afraid to outsource their IT services in Romania.
17. Ideal for Both Offshoring and Nearshoring
One of the most significant reasons for offshoring and nearshoring to Romania is the availability of a large talent pool of skilled IT professionals. While in some countries there is an alarming shortage of IT specialists, Romanian IT can boast of having a number of employees equal to the population of small European countries like Monaco.
Romania has an ideal time zone for all the European countries and price rates are almost three times lower than in Western European countries. What is more, Romanian software developers have a strong command of English which is proven by taking 10th place in the English Proficiency Index which eliminates any possibility of the language barrier.
Final Thoughts
Outsourcing IT services in Romania has a lot of advantages. There are highly qualified IT specialists, relatively low labor costs, and an understandable culture. If you are considering the possibility of involving IT specialists from Romania in the development of an IT project, don’t hesitate and contact us.
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