5 Ways You Can Find Your Next Tech Hire

“If I have to read another resume or conduct another Zoom interview I’m going to …” my friend mimes gouging his eye out with his bottle of Heineken.

We all laugh and nod because we’ve been there. We’re sipping beers in Brooklyn and my friend is lamenting the challenges specific to hiring in tech. Not only is tech hiring time-consuming and surprisingly expensive, it can be totally overwhelming.

Should you go with an affordable but unvetted freelancer? Or the staffing agency who’s going to charge 30% of the hire’s salary? Should you hire someone full time and deal with HR and benefits packages and equity shares?

After a decade in tech and working with dozens of clients, I’ve seen pretty much every business model and hiring structure under the sun. Unsurprisingly, I have opinions about said business models and hiring practices!

If you need to scale your business or you’ve got a big project and need more people, read on.

5 Ways You Can Find Your Next Tech Hire

1. Tech Staffing agencies

When a company works with a staffing agency, the hope is that the company will eventually offer a full time position to the person the staffing agency has found for them. The staffing agency does the legwork of finding and vetting the employee, saving the company a lot of time and energy.

If the company ends up hiring this person, a percentage of the new employee’s salary will go to the staffing agency for the first year or two; that’s how staffing agencies make money.

Typically, tech staffing agencies take a 20 - 30% cut of the new hire’s salary. So if that new hire is earning $100,000 a year, the staffing agency gets $20,000 - $30,000.

Pros of using a tech staffing agency

Finding, recruiting, and vetting potential hires can be incredibly time-consuming and surprisingly expensive! Finding a trusted tech staffing agency can save you a lot of time, money, and stress.

Cons of using a tech staffing agency

The drawbacks here are the same as with any full time employee - the cost of benefits packages, equity, and potential severance packages can add up. Add the extra expense of a 20%-30% finders fee and costs can get high..

Additionally, every company goes through seasons where they’re scaling up or working on a big project and they need more help, but only for 6 - 9 months. They need more hands on deck, but not indefinitely.

Which is where staff augmentation agencies come …

2. Staff augmentation agencies

Neutech is a staff augmentation agency; we're a combination of all the above! And - spoiler alert - we believe it’s the best hiring and business model for tech companies. Here’s why:

How a staff augmentation agency works:

Similar to a tech agency, you hire the staff augmentation agency as a whole and they pull from their pool of talent to work on your project.

Neutech’s talent pool includes over 100 people! We have …

• backend engineers

• Designers

• front end engineers

• full stack engineers

• QA engineers

• agile knowledge management

• product managers

• product owners

• scrum masters

• software architects

• business analysts

• QA leads

• tech leads

• CTOs

• AI engineers

• machine learning engineers

• automated QA engineers

• AR and VR engineers

• video game engineers

• product management

• project management

• QA and software architects

• … and more!

Unlike a staffing agency, a staffing augmentation agency does the training and hiring of the talent for you. So you can bet your bottom dollar that they’re great or they wouldn’t have a coveted staff position at the augmentation agency. 

One of the biggest benefits of working with a staff augmentation agency is that you don’t have to spend your time, money, and energy reading through a pile of resumes or recruiting people whose LinkedIn profile seems to match your needs.

We’ll introduce you to our team of highly trained folks, you interview them, and then we plug and play!

Once you’ve chosen the people you’d like to have on your project, they will be fully integrated into your teams similar to an in-house hire. They work on the project full time either until the project is completed or until you decide to scale back - whichever you prefer.

A staffing augmentation agency gives you the benefits of a full time employee - someone who’s totally committed to the project and integrated into your team - without the unwieldy time and financial commitments.

Many staff augmentation agencies have a six month to 1 year minimum, but Neutech offers month-to-month plans. This means you can scale up or down, as long as you give us 30 days notice. 

Discover you need help with a few quick integrations or some touch up work on your Figma designs for the next two months? Within a week, we can have two senior level resources embedded on your team, putting in 40 hours a week to help you get where you want to go.

And if you’d like to know 3 other ways you can find your next tech hire - beyond using a tech agency or a staff augmentation agency - you can read the whole article here.

We know that hiring in tech can feel overwhelming - that’s why we’ve spent the last ten years fine tuning our unique approach to training and staffing our incredible engineers. If you need to add some committed, senior-level talent to your team for an upcoming project, we’d love to chat!