Case Study: Factorial boosts engineering throughput with Swarmia

How Factorial drives continuous improvement during rapid growth

Factorial, a fast-growing SaaS company providing HR software, needed better visibility into its expanding engineering organization as it scaled from 80 to 150 developers in 2022. The team wanted a lightweight way to understand bottlenecks in delivery, improve code review flow, and give managers and engineers useful data without adding friction, so they turned to Swarmia.

Using Swarmia’s pull request analytics, Slack notifications, and DORA metrics, Factorial improved engineering visibility and team accountability while supporting managers with actionable insights. In the first year, the company more than doubled throughput, increased code review rate from 74% to 95%, reduced first review time from 12 hours to 10 hours, and cut merge time from 24 hours to 15 hours.

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Pau Revilla

Chief Technology Officer