Staff Augmentation Services

• Staff Augmentation: Who manages Client's engineering lead manages directly. Start time 2 weeks. Cost $3,000-12,000/mo per engineer. Flexibility 30-day scale up/down notice. Expertise Individual skills matched to role. Best for Adding capacity to a strong existing team. Minimum duration 1-3 months typically.
• Dedicated Team: Who manages ClickMasters tech lead manages the team. Start time 2 weeks. Cost $12,000-60,000/mo per team. Flexibility 30-day scale up/down notice. Expertise Team composition matched to product. Best for Product development with limited internal management. Minimum duration 3 months minimum.
• Full-Time Hire: Who manages Client manages directly. Start time 3-6 months (recruitment + notice period). Cost $120,000-200,000+/yr (salary + benefits + overhead). Flexibility Difficult notice period, redundancy process. Expertise Single hire, skills limited to one person. Best for Core long-term team members. Minimum duration Permanent or long-term contract.

ClickMasters engineers go through a multi-stage vetting process before being placed with clients: CV review (experience, tech stack alignment, previous project types), technical screening (60-90 minute technical interview with a ClickMasters senior engineer live coding, system design, architecture questions matched to the role), practical assessment (a take-home task or pair programming session on a problem representative of the client's tech stack), reference check (previous client or employer reference), and trial period (engineers placed with clients are evaluated against specific performance criteria in the first 30 days ClickMasters replaces an engineer who does not meet the client's standards within this window at no additional cost). The client also conducts their own technical interview before accepting an engineer ClickMasters does not place engineers without client interview and approval.