Hiring for someone who has done it before is very common at the Principal and Staff Engineer level. As people get more senior in their careers there is more dem

Hiring for someone who has done it before is very common at the Principal and Staff Engineer level. As people get more senior in their careers there is more demand for specific skills and expertise not less. Contracting out is its own can of worms and can introduce as many problems as it solves. Exact specifiable way typically means 30 details to iron out later even when both sides mean well and those details are usually problematic.