The client had a working platform and a thirty-five-person team. The product roadmap for the season called for catalogue expansion, payment and tax provider integrations, and front-end performance work, all before peak load. They needed fifteen more engineers, fast, across nine different roles, with live interviews only and no take-home tasks.
We ran hiring as a product. Standardised scorecards, competency matrices for QA, Back-End, Full-Stack, and Performance. Feedback within two to seventy-two hours. A weekly business review to catch bottlenecks. Pipelines for each role ran in parallel, with candidates rerouted between roles when their level matched a neighbouring opening better than the original one.
13 starts
within twelve weeks, against a target of fifteen
~92%
ninety-day retention of the new hires
5 days
median ramp-up to first pull request