How to Hire Three Engineers to Get Things Done Three Months Faster

You should also think about the future. Like, is this business going to expand and have a greater engineering need in the future? And if you have a fully ramped engineering staff ready to go when that growth phase hits, then you'll be in a much better shape to ride the wave instead of getting drowned by the wave. It takes a while for those people to spin up. So even if you don't have a ton of an overwhelming amount of work right now, if you see more work coming ahead of you, you really need to invest in it.