The Client
A global enterprise software company was establishing a new development and support centre in India to serve its international client base. With the centre's go-live date fixed, the client needed to hire 50 specialist engineers — spanning backend development, QA automation, DevOps, and product support — within a single month.
The Challenge
The roles spanned multiple technology stacks (Java, .NET, cloud infrastructure, and test automation), and the client required candidates who could join almost immediately, ruling out long notice-period profiles for the majority of positions. Compounding the difficulty, the client wanted to maintain a consistent quality bar across all 50 hires despite the scale and speed required — a combination that had caused two previous recruitment partners to fall short of timelines.
MMC's IT & Technology desk was engaged with a clear brief: deliver 50 quality hires in 30 days without compromising on technical assessment standards.
Our Approach
- Dedicated sourcing pod — A ring-fenced team of consultants was assigned exclusively to this mandate, working in parallel across each technology stack rather than sequentially.
- Pre-vetted technical screening — Working with the client's engineering leads, MMC built role-specific technical assessments upfront, so every candidate presented had already cleared a first-level technical bar before client interviews.
- Rapid interview scheduling — MMC ran back-to-back interview days, coordinating calendars across both the client's hiring managers and candidates to compress what is typically a multi-week interview cycle into days.
- Offer and notice-period management — Our Permanent Staffing team worked closely with shortlisted candidates through the offer and resignation process, reducing drop-offs at the final stage.
The Result
All 50 positions were filled within the 30-day window — across engineering, QA, DevOps, and support functions. The client's new India centre went live on schedule, and a 96% one-year retention rate across the cohort reflects the quality of the technical and cultural fit achieved.
"MMC's IT desk understood our technology stack from day one. The speed was impressive, but what mattered more was that every candidate they presented was genuinely qualified — our hiring managers barely needed to push anyone back." — VP Engineering, Global Technology Firm