2025 SA Tech Team Scaling Playbook

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In this practical playbook, you'll get data-backed solutions to navigate and overcome common hiring challenges, including:

  • blue checkmark How to keep hold of your top performers
  • blue checkmark Navigating degree and experience requirements limiting your hiring options
  • blue checkmark Hiring best practices that help you land preferred candidates

Your secret weapon in navigating a changing hiring landscape

Hiring great developers has always been hard, but now you're navigating a landscape where the rules of hiring have changed. As a CTO or Engineering Manager, you're no longer just scaling your dev teams — your mission is delivering more with less. Hiring them is critical, but let’s be real, it’s also a time suck. Between sourcing, screening, scheduling, and referencing, the hours stack up fast. This isn’t just frustrating — it’s a full-blown productivity killer.


This playbook is built to help you navigate hiring in this new reality with precision backed by South Africa’s largest dataset on developer careers, salaries, and trends. We surveyed 3400+ developers to give you actionable, data-driven insights on what top talent looks like today, what's motivating them and what it takes to stand out to your preferred candidates.