The Hidden Abuses Inside Outsourced IT Body Shops

Anyone who has spent time in hiring knows that the staffing industry is not just flawed, it is fundamentally broken. Companies struggle to find real talent. Strong engineers struggle to be understood. And the practices used by many staffing firms create more risk than value. After years inside enterprise environments, I have watched these issues play out repeatedly, and the same problems appear every time.

Fake experience and inflated resumes

Entire pipelines are built on coached answers, scripted projects and resumes padded with experience that never happened. This wastes hiring manager time and places unprepared candidates into critical security roles.

Proxy interviews

Some firms coordinate proxy interviewers who take technical screens for candidates. The person a team evaluates is not the person who shows up on day one. This is one of the most damaging and dangerous trends in the industry.

Hidden subcontracting layers

It is common for three or four subcontracting layers to sit between the company and the actual engineer. Accountability gets diluted, quality drops and both sides lose visibility into who is doing the work.

Fake job listings and resume farming

Many roles are posted simply to collect candidates, not to hire them. Job seekers waste their time and trust, and companies inherit a flooded pipeline of unqualified submissions.

Unauthorized work hand offs

Some firms place candidates who then hand off their work to someone else entirely. In other cases, a different individual uses the company issued laptop or provides behind the scenes support. This is a direct breach of trust and a serious security risk for any organization, especially in regulated environments

How Brimstone Hill operates differently

Brimstone Hill is built by engineers who have lived the realities of enterprise security.

• We evaluate talent with true technical judgment and have firsthand experience catching resume fraud, proxy interviews and unauthorized work substitution inside real enterprise environments.

• We refuse volume games, shortcuts or gimmicks and operate with full transparency, ethics and technical rigor.

• We protect companies from mis alignment and mis representation while advocating for candidates and placing them where they can succeed.

• Cybersecurity deserves better, and Brimstone Hill exists to deliver that higher standard.