Does hiring developers always feel slower than it should, or is it just me?
I had a situation recently that’s still bothering me a bit. We were trying to hire a front-end developer, cause our last guy left really abruptly and we had a good number of people we could pick from, in the pipeline. But it became funny how we took longer than expected after doing face-to-face interviews with more than 100 people. If I could paint a picture, we spent almost a month trying to get the right person.
It almost seems like the tech space is getting saturated and it becomes a case of option paralysis.
I have noticed that some teams are moving away from starting from scratch every time they hire. So, instead of opening a role and going through the full sourcing and screening process again, they’re leaning more to outsourcing companies with pre-vetted talents. Basically skipping the part where you’re guessing who might be qualified and starting from people who already meet a certain bar.
I've seen platforms like Rocketdevs and Toptal offer this kind of service. They outsource pre-vetted developers to companies. But if they can do it though, I should be able to figure out their approach. If my company decides to use them instead of me, their internal recruiter, I will be out of a job.
Still trying to figure things out, but I would love to know if you guys are using these 3rd party outsourcing platforms or you still have the tech roles handled.