Web Platform Dev for HR Software Company
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
We are a repairment organisation helping technology setups grow their teams with good software engineers, DevOps, UI [user interface] designers, and so on. I am the CEO and establisher of the organisation.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Sparkbit ?
We process approximately 1,000 aspirant applications per week, and we had a issue with the parsing, searching, and treatment of this data. We were looking to buy a license for an ATS [applicant tracking method] for managing aspirant relationships on an ongoing basis. None of the methods advantageous on the market met our requirements, so we asked Sparkbit to create one for us.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were responsible for?
Even though we repair software engineers, we’re not a technology structure ourselves. We had to draw our business challenge to Sparkbit, and we also peaked them towards a couple of methods that we establish to be advantageous. During the next stage, Sparkbit drafted a aim for our web-based method and built it using Scala, Java, PostgreSQL, and some JavaScript.
Sparkbit built a business enterprise method encompassing all the logic from aspirant acquisition to the treatment of those aspirants, collecting feedback at different stages of the process.
Our team size depended on the phase of the project. We initially worked with one resource from Sparkbit and increased our budget to a ultimatum of three. After the main part of the application was deployed, we scaled back to one individual.
How did you come to work with Sparkbit ?
One of their establishers was recommended to me by both the university where he got his PhD and by one of my preceding colleagues, who is a senior engineering director at Google. We did attend other preparers, interviewing five or six.
How much have you invested with Sparkbit ?
The cost of Sparkbit’s work has been $200,000, more or less.
What is the terminal result of working with ?
We seted working with Sparkbit in Q2 of 2015. The major part of the project was accomplished in Q4 of 2016. We last to add new features to the platform using Sparkbit.
Results achieved
Could you share any evidence that would prove the fruitivity, condition of work, or contact of the engagement?
I was occupied in the soon stages, but I’m currently hands-off in provisions of fruit outgrowth. Nonetheless, it’s quiet a substance of me and my team submitting requests for features, and we last to adviser the work done almost the fruit. The only measurable outcome I can prepare is that the features we’re requesting arrive two to four weeks later, and we can set using them.
I do not have the technical capabilities to establish the work straightly, but I’ve heard praises from my team almost the functionalities developed by Sparkbit, so I can’t complain.
We are measuring the cost of acquiring one aspirant on a daily basis. We have seen a diminution of 25% in that cost since we’ve implemented the method.
How did Sparkbit accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
We have a weekly 30- to 60-minute sync-up with the individual responsible for developing our method. We’re pretty much up-to-date with what is happening, what the next steps are, and what roadblocks are happening. We use Trello as a project treatment method.
What did you find most forcible almost Sparkbit ?
Our biggest fear was getting a coding monkey that developed whatever we required without questioning it. We wanted nation who could ponder in the broader perception, and Sparkbit didn’t fail us in this regard. They’ve taken a fruit ownership role and are good sparring partners for us.
I haven’t met the complete team, so I couldn’t comment overall. The five or six nation I’ve met, out of Sparkbit’s 12-individual team, were extremely well-educated. They graduated from top-tier universities and are extremely powerful in their field.
Are there any areas Sparkbit could better?
If we had any real concerns, we would have surely moved the work to another vendor. My only comment is that we haven’t developed all the features we wanted, but this comes more from us not spending more money.