How to Hire a Dedicated Dev Team in Canada
Hiring a dev team feels simple until you actually try to do it. You post a job, you talk to five agencies, you get five different pitches, and somehow you still don't know who's going to build your product.

Hiring a dev team feels simple until you actually try to do it. You post a job, you talk to five agencies, you get five different pitches, and somehow you still don't know who's going to build your product.

Most Canadian founders think hiring in-house is the safer bet. You control the team, you know who is working on your product, and it feels more permanent. What it actually costs is a different conversation. When you put every number on the table, from salary and payroll to recruiting time and team management, the math usually lands somewhere most founders did not expect.

If you're comparing software development companies in Canada, you've probably noticed the same handful of names keep showing up, and none of the roundups agree on who belongs at the top. That's because "best" depends entirely on what you're building and how far along you are. A funded startup shipping its first product needs something very different from a government agency running a legacy enterprise system.