Prestige Development Group

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m a project lead for a software development company that builds products mainly in the financial technology and banking sector. 

What challenge were you trying to address with Prestige Development Group?

We had an acute hiring need, but we didn’t have any internal recruiters or a formal talent acquisition process. We were looking for an external vendor to acquire talent on our behalf. 

What was the scope of their involvement?

Prestige helps us hire qualified engineering talents. They work at the very top of the hiring funnel, writing job descriptions and sourcing and screening candidates. After an initial interview, they would then present qualified applicants to our team, giving us the necessary information on how to secure those talents. 

The job search only lasts a few weeks since we’re seeking high-demand resources. Along the way, Prestige taught us a lot about what they were doing. They helped us develop an internal hiring capacity within our team. 

In addition, they’ve streamlined our recruitment process to lessen the steps that candidates have to go through. They eliminated unnecessary steps and refined our job descriptions. Their team suggested how to write descriptions that attract higher-quality candidates. 

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with Tiffany (CEO), McKenna (Head of Talent), 2–3 recruiters, and other teammates.

How did you come to work with Prestige Development Group?

Our COO initially engaged with them online. During our initial conversations, they gave us the impression that they know what they were talking about. Their experience was evident upfront, and we felt we had picked the right folks for the job.

How much have you invested in them?

We’ve spent between $100,000–$250,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We’ve started working together in July 2021, and our partnership is ongoing.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Prestige’s efforts have helped us hire several people and optimize our recruitment process. They’ve also successfully trained our internal hiring resources. We feel confident that we can scale quickly as we now have our processes set. 

How did Prestige Development Group perform from a project management standpoint?

Someone from Prestige is always available to help us with anything. We typically assign tasks on a weekly basis. When issues arise, they are very quick to be accountable. We primarily communicate through Slack and emails. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

Our needs change quite frequently as we screen and go through candidates. They are responsive, supportive, and adaptive to our quickly changing requirements.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm the CTO of the civilian IT division at Leidos, a scientific research company.

What challenge were you trying to address with Prestige Development Group?

We reached out to Prestige to help us quickly provide resources to work on the architecture and technology for a client under a tight deadline. Most of the work involved cloud infrastructure, micro-services, and UI/UX development.

What was the scope of their involvement?

Prestige worked on a cloud infrastructure project for a mobility app that included microservices and some UI/UX development. The project required a strong understanding of iOS given that it leveraged facial biometrics, geolocation, and hands-free typing features. The app also included AWS capabilities and used APIs for microservices. They put together a relational database on the RDF side, as well as an S3 Bucket for storing the media required for the app. 

What is the team composition? 

I primarily worked with a project manager, as well as Tiffany (CEO, Prestige Development Group). They scaled the number of resources working on our project as needed. 

How did you come to work with Prestige Development Group?

I've been working with Tiffany for over 10 years on other technology projects, so I already trusted that her company would be able to ramp up resources quickly to meet our needs. 

How much have you invested with them?

We invested about $130,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked on the project together from August–December 2018. Although we scoped out five months to complete the app, Prestige completed it in just three months. 

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The purpose of the project was to deliver a prototype to our customer in an effort to convince them to invest in building out the full technology, and we were successful in doing that. In addition to delivering exactly what we wanted, Prestige also delivered well ahead of schedule. 

How did Prestige Development Group perform from a project management standpoint?

Within less than a week or two of engaging them, Prestige was able to put together a team and start working on the project. In addition to the quality of their work, there wasn't a single hiccup throughout the development process and they exceeded our deadline.

At any given time, I was only in contact with two people, which helped me stay organized, informed, and focused on the bigger picture. They took an agile approach, providing weekly reports and bi-weekly sprint release notes, as well as a functional app for our review at the end of each cycle. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

They're extremely easy to work and deliver great results. I'll definitely work with them in the future based on their performance. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

No. They were spot on both in terms of project management and deliverables. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I'd just definitely recommend working with them. They're a quick, efficient, and inexpensive choice for the quality of work they provide. 

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CTO of a small software development company with around 50 total employees. We principally service the construction, process & plant, and oil & gas industries.

For what projects/services did your company hire Prestige Development Group, and what were your goals?

We worked Prestige Development Group to hire several new developers for an important new project for our company.

How did you select Prestige Development Group and what were the deciding factors?

We interviewed several vendors. In the end, we selected Prestige Development Group because we liked their approach to the hiring process and their competitive rates.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Prestige Development Group was responsible for sourcing qualified candidates, screening them, forwarding promising leads to us, then helping us schedule interviews.

How many people from the Prestige Development Group team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We worked with two people: Tiffany Jorge (CEO) and Michael Belcher (Technical Recruiting Lead).

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We filled all open positions for our project on schedule and on budget.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Clear communication, fast response times, and attentive to our feedback. No complaints.

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

Attentive to our needs and feedback both during the initial calibration and throughout the entire duration of the project regarding the types of candidates we hoped to the source. The team's pace at which we could conduct interviews and all other aspects are impressive in the workflow.

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

No. We were fully satisfied with the experience.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the senior director of technology at Healthy Minds Innovation Inc. We’re a nonprofit that builds science-based meditation practice tools for mental health and wellbeing improvement.

What challenge were you trying to address with Prestige Development Group?

We needed their IT staff augmentation efforts.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We engaged Prestige Development Group to seek their help in hiring a data engineer who could support our app maintenance efforts. They gave us a pool of candidates to choose from, and we then hired one based on our qualifications. 

We tasked the data engineer with maintaining the data infrastructure of our existing internal analytics platform, a cloud-based application hosted via AWS. The robustness of our platform depended on the analytics system utilized by our staff and customers, so Prestige Development Group also maintained its database and code work.

What is the team composition?

We worked with their data engineer.

How did you come to work with Prestige Development Group?

I worked with their team when I was still working at my previous company.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent under $5,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

The project ran from August–September 2021.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

I couldn’t say enough great things about Prestige Development Group’s work. We were impressed with their ability to understand our needs and present candidate profiles based on those — we easily found the right person because of their strategic and proactive onboarding process.

How did Prestige Development Group perform from a project management standpoint?

We communicate via weekly check-in calls. They were a diligent and communicative team — they always kept us in the loop throughout the vetting process.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Prestige Development Group took the time to engage with us and understand what we were looking for. We’re a small nonprofit with particular needs, and they listened to us and translated our needs into great solutions.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There’s nothing constructive about their work — they knocked it out of the park.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Recognize the fact that both parties must be willing to work well to make for a successful partnership. If you put in as much effort as their team and articulate your needs clearly, you’ll definitely make the most of your collaboration with Prestige Development Group.