H&K Soft Company

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Account Manager, Responsible for project delivery processes st software development company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire H&K Soft Company?

We needed software engineers with .Net, strong back-end skills and great researcher, who could help us with our online education platform. At some stages we needed to speedup deliverables, needed flexible capacity and guys provided all.

SOLUTION

How did you select this agency and what were the deciding factors?

I knew about them from my network and we organized interviews with their engineers, my teammates evaluated candidates highly and we signed this deal.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

Working on plaform for online education. There're 2 branches of future product, one is more for online staff training, second is for companies who deliver their curriculum in K-12. Here we need to pay attention to QTI/LTI, Classlink, some state adoption and so on. Web based application, developed from scratch. Stack: React/.Net

Describe the recruitment process in detail.

Interviews + test tasks. First stage we had interviews with their candidates. Guys were very flexible about time slots and so on. Good english skills and what I admit: understanding of business goals. Some candidates were asking about that, senior level, good sign. Test task - well done, some some of them took more time then expected, but it's ok, as guys had other tasks in parallel. We worked with 4 people since we've started.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?

Helped us to speed up our velocity by around 20-30%

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very comfortable. Some of them are ready to shift their working hrs closer to their evening, as our PO is located in North America.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Attitude to the project, like it's their startup which is super-super important for them. It's not a huge dev house. They are a very bright team of people who care about their clients.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Looks good for their current stage. Maybe in future they will need to speedup some things, as they're scaling and scaling.