The most expensive Salesforce hiring mistake isn’t a bad hire. It’s a slow one.
A team running without the right architect in place doesn’t just move slower. They make ill-informed decisions that can take 18 months and a six-figure consulting engagement to undo. Every week that role stays open, something downstream gets built without the right guidance.
The typical internal search for a senior Salesforce role at a mid-market company runs three to five months when things go smoothly. Post, wait, sort, screen, interview, extend, lose the candidate to a counter-offer, start over. Meanwhile the implementation keeps moving.
I worked with one company that custom developed everything and did not take advantage of declarative functionality because their admin team was all developers. When it came time for a major org upgrade, they couldn’t even explain how it all worked. It took months to unwind and reimplement to get it to a migratable state. They didn’t have the architectural oversight to prevent this.
The cost of a slow search is almost always invisible until it isn’t. If your Salesforce search has been open more than 60 days, it’s worth a 15-minute conversation.
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