The Truth About What Is Broken In The Staffing Industry

Why Both Job Seekers And Companies Deserve Better

The staffing industry touches every corner of cybersecurity. It should be the connective tissue that brings strong engineers to the companies that need them most. Instead, the industry has become crowded with practices that harm both candidates and organizations. What was designed to build teams has slowly eroded trust on every side.

As engineers who have worked inside Fortune level environments and seen behind the curtain, we believe it is time to say what many people already know but rarely say out loud, the staffing industry has become inefficient.

The rise of body shops that treat people like headcount

Large staffing body shops often operate as high volume mills. They cycle through people, underpay them, control their mobility and treat them as replaceable. These firms fill seats without understanding the work and push candidates into roles they are not prepared for, putting entire teams at risk.

Companies get subpar delivery.
Candidates get stuck in systems where their growth is secondary to billable hours.

The hidden cost to companies

Mis hires cost far more than a staffing fee. They slow down projects, create security exposure, drain internal time and force teams to start from zero months later. Putting the wrong person in the role is more than inconvenient. It is dangerous. Companies want partners who protect them from mis alignment, not contribute to it.

The hidden cost to candidates

Candidates pay the price when they are misrepresented by recruiters who do not understand their experience. Strong engineers get overlooked. Skilled people get placed into environments where they cannot succeed. Career growth stalls because someone pushed them into the wrong path for the sake of a quick placement.

Why we built Brimstone Hill to be different

We come from the engineering side, not the recruiting side. We have lived inside enterprise security, solved real security problems, responded to real incidents and built real architectures. We know what good work looks like and we know what it takes to deliver it.

For companies, this means accurate evaluation, honest communication and talent that genuinely fits the role. For candidates, this means advocacy, clarity, fairness and a partner who understands their craft and protects their interests.

The industry is broken because it lost sight of the people it serves. We believe it can be rebuilt through honesty, technical depth and respect for the talent that keeps modern enterprise secure.

Brimstone Hill exists to set that standard.