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The goal of the recruiting company is to get candidates hired. That may or may not conflict with the ultimate goal of the client doing the hiring, which is to g

The goal of the recruiting company is to get candidates hired. That may or may not conflict with the ultimate goal of the client doing the hiring, which is to get the job done. I have this problem internally at my company. Recruiting have crazy goals (hire 30 developers per month) so they push us to accept whatever they can get. Sure, we can keep refusing the candidates but at some point you have to accept someone to get the job done. Even if you need to double check everything they do. The reasons for that are too complex for a small post but believe me, there are many.

scarface74 8y ago
The post you are replying to said: Hire a recruiting company. There are recruiting companies that have a staff of full time consultants that will bring in a whole development team and manage the product. You are replying to a scenario that is just the opposite of my suggestion. The client company is not hiring developers at all. They are contracting out with the consulting company to manage the entire project. The founder is working with a project manager who is employed with the consulting company to develop a product. The recruiting company is doing all of the project management, development, QA, etc. The founder is hopefully coming up with acceptance criteria for the product since it was his idea. After the project gets off the ground, then the recruiting/consulting company works with the client to develop in house expertise starting with finding a dev manager who hopefully understands the business and the technical and the dev manager works with recruiters to staff up. You’re not hiring anyone at first. You’re basically outsourcing the entire development project to an outside agency. If you are a non technical founder, this may be the best way to go. There is a local recruiting/consulting company that has been trying to get me to come work for them directly full time in the role of team lead, I just can’t do the travel right now.

scarface74 8y ago

The post you are replying to said: Hire a recruiting company. There are recruiting companies that have a staff of full time consultants that will bring in a whole development team and manage the product. You are replying to a scenario that is just the opposite of my suggestion. The client company is not hiring developers at all. They are contracting out with the consulting company to manage the entire project. The founder is working with a project manager who is employed with the consulting company to develop a product. The recruiting company is doing all of the project management, development, QA, etc. The founder is hopefully coming up with acceptance criteria for the product since it was his idea. After the project gets off the ground, then the recruiting/consulting company works with the client to develop in house expertise starting with finding a dev manager who hopefully understands the business and the technical and the dev manager works with recruiters to staff up. You’re not hiring anyone at first. You’re basically outsourcing the entire development project to an outside agency. If you are a non technical founder, this may be the best way to go. There is a local recruiting/consulting company that has been trying to get me to come work for them directly full time in the role of team lead, I just can’t do the travel right now.