Weighing this decision for way too long now and could use some real input.
We need to scale our dev team fast for a project with a tight deadline, and going through a full hiring process direct feels too slow right now. Looking into an IT staff augmentation company instead but part of me wonders if we're just adding a middleman and extra cost for something we could do ourselves with more patience.
Never gone this route before so genuinely unsure if the tradeoff is actually worth it for a team our size.
Things I'm still weighing:
Whether augmented staff actually integrate well with an existing team or if that transition is usually rocky
How much time this genuinely saves compared to just pushing through direct hiring slower
If you've gone this route before, was it worth skipping the direct hire process?