Rackspace | Hiring engineers in Mexico without creating a localized HR Team

Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.

The Issue

Lack of reach and specialization in Mexico's tech talent ecosystem.

Rackspace Today

Rackspace continues to grow exponentially as a multinational cloud-computing corporation.

With multiple acquisitions within the last couple of years, they've continued to make headlines and expand into other markets.

Problem

Rackspace had been experiencing difficulties in finding qualified talent in Mexico’s hiring market. They had more job openings than they could fill with their internal team. They were missing the connection to the local tech ecosystem in Mexico. What’s more they were looking to add speed and quality into their IT recruiting process to fill their positions quickly and repeatedly. To solve this issue, they decided to look to localized tech recruiting agencies to supplement their already established recruiting team.

Approach

CodersLink supported their recruiting efforts by giving them access to a large talent pool of pre-vetted software engineers and developers, allowing them to recruit and interview quality candidates in Mexico for their positions faster. Given Rackspace’s multinational reach, they needed no support on payroll and benefit management.

Results

Rackspace was able to recruit and fill their open positions at a faster pace and lower recruiting costs.

Reduced time to fill challenging positions

• Through CodersLink’s talent pipeline, Rackspace quickly received quality profiles for their positions, identified and interviewed top profiles, and hired the ones they liked. They were able to start delivering on the hiring demand they had without expanding their team internally.

Access to talent pipeline of 14,000

• By partnering with CodersLink, they immediately tap into a large pool of engineers in Mexico to fill their requirements. Through our ongoing partnership, Rackspace can turn their access to this pool on or off, depending on their needs.

40% reduction in recruiting costs

• By using CodersLink’s talent pool and recruiting resources, Rackspace was able to reduce their time-to-hire and the overall time spent by their internal team reviewing CV’s, interviewing, and making hiring decisions. This, alongside lower hiring costs, helped them save big on recruiting costs.