A bad engineering hire rarely looks bad on day one. The resume checked out, the interview went fine, the take-home test was solid enough. The real cost shows up three months in, when the code review load has quietly doubled, senior engineers are re-doing work instead of shipping their own, and a sprint that should […]
“Staff augmentation” and “dedicated team” get used interchangeably in a lot of sales conversations, but they solve different problems. Picking the wrong one does not just cost money, it costs momentum, because you end up with a delivery structure that fights your roadmap instead of supporting it. Staff augmentation: capacity, on your terms Staff augmentation […]
Most engineering leaders don’t lose sleep over whether they need more capacity. They lose sleep over how long it takes to get it. A typical enterprise hiring cycle for a senior engineer runs 60 to 90 days from job posting to signed offer, and that is before onboarding, ramp-up, and the first shipped feature. By […]
