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“Our mission is to provide industry-leading software
development services while creating the opportunity for people
to grow and thrive in their own careers at the company.”
offered just temporary staff
augmentation we have also begun
offering project-based work and
direct hire recruiting and sourcing.
This is all made possible because
of the AI-powered virtual hiring
platform we built that enables
video interviewing, speeding up the
vetting process and removing bias
from the recruitment and hiring
process.
Can you brief us about the
history of your company?
We started out providing staff
augmentation services for elite-level
software developers. In providing
staff augmentation, we realized we
needed to improve the recruiting
process to better recruit top tier,
elite-level developers, so we began
to work on a solution. We developed
an AI-powered video platform to
recruit very quickly only the best
of the best and improve the overall
candidate experience throughout
the process. This platform and our
business philosophy have enabled
us to staff our clients with higher-
quality candidates much faster than
our competitors. We just completed
a case study where we have a
91 percent success rate on the
candidates we present being hired
onto our clients successfully, we are
very proud of that metric.
Moreover, our mission is to
provide industry-leading software
development services while creating
an opportunity for people to grow
and thrive in their own careers at
the company.
What were the biggest initial
hurdles to building your
business and how did you
overcome them?
The biggest hurdle I faced was when
I initially started the company and
needed to build credibility. We were
a smaller team at the time and did
not yet have a proven track record
as a new company, so it was a
challenge to convince larger clients
to trust us and our experience. We
worked very hard to push past this
phase during our first six to eight
months to really get some projects
under our belt and deliver on
them. After this initial phase, the
business just took off because we
were building software for fortune
100 clients and our credibility was
no longer a hurdle but a point of
promotion for our company.
Another hurdle that we had to
overcome was being sure that you
are only filling positions with the
most qualified candidates. You are
desperate to fill these positions,
so you start to fill them with
candidates that are not necessarily
the most qualified candidate for the
role and this would not work out
well for anyone involved. In order
to overcome this, we simply just
stopped doing it; regardless of what
positions we needed to fill we would
only fill the position if we had the
best, most qualified candidate.
A third hurdle we faced was the high
demand for our services that we
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