3× engineering capacity in six months, zero mis-hires
- Timeline
- 6 months
- Team
- 8 → 24 engineers
- Model
- Dedicated pod → C2H conversions
- Region
- US (EST overlap)
The challenge
A Series-B SaaS company had eight engineers, a two-year roadmap and a hiring market that gave them one qualified onshore candidate a month. Every sprint was triage; the roadmap was fiction.
What we did
We started with a four-engineer dedicated pod matched to their stack (React, Node, Postgres) with a 4-hour EST overlap, integrated into their existing squads rather than parked as a separate “offshore team”.
AI-vetted pipelines kept a bench warm as the pod expanded — sixteen additional engineers over five months, every one interviewed against the client’s own bar, with a 92% first-shortlist acceptance rate. [PLACEHOLDER: verify]
At month six the client converted the original pod to full-time employees under their new India entity — a transition designed into the contracts from day one.
The results
“The pod out-shipped our onshore contractors from the first sprint. By month three we stopped thinking of them as external. [PLACEHOLDER: real quote]”
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