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Hire engineers. Spend less engineering time interviewing.

We source candidates and assess their technical and soft skills against your role before introducing them. Your team meets candidates who have passed that assessment, reviews the evidence and runs its own interviews. We support the process through to hire.

18% total fee · $2,000 to start, included in the total · Balance when your hire starts

Technical assessment before your first interview.·15-business-day finalist milestone & refund terms

Your Standard search commitments

Agree the assessment. Focus your interview time. Before introduction, each finalist has passed the agreed technical and soft-skill stages, with expectations and availability confirmed. Your team runs its own interviews; we support the process through to hire.

15 business daysFirst qualifying finalist or end the search for a $2,000 refund
60 calendar daysSearch continues while your role remains open
90-day coverOne replacement search under the agreed conditions

The $2,000 launch payment is included in your 18% fee. See payment, refund and replacement terms →

How Standard works

Your engineers meet candidates who passed our assessment.

Example funnel for a Standard search. The number of profiles and interviews varies with the role, its complexity and the market.

  1. ≈100

    Profiles considered

    We source against your agreed role, salary and market, then narrow the pool through CV screening.

  2. 20–50

    Candidates interviewed

    Recruiter interviews and role-specific AI technical screening establish skills, motivation and fit.

  3. 3–5

    Finalists for your role

    All agreed technical and soft-skill stages passed, with interest, expectations and availability confirmed.

You meet the finalists. We stay involved.

Your team reviews the evidence and runs its own technical, hiring-manager and team interviews with candidates who passed the agreed assessments. Recruo supports coordination and the offer process through to hire.

Three questions buyers ask before the first call

Do we still run our own technical interviews?

Yes. Recruo assesses candidates against the technical and soft-skill requirements agreed for your role before introducing them. Your engineers can then run company-specific technical interviews, and your hiring manager and team make their own assessment. The aim is to spend that time on candidates who have already cleared the agreed bar. We share the evidence and support the process through to hire.

Can we engage Recruo for a single role first?

Yes. Start with one vacancy. We agree the selection criteria, search scope and launch date before payment. The $2,000 launch payment is included in the 18% total fee, with the remaining balance due when your hire starts. Standard includes the agreed selection, final hiring support and replacement coverage.

What happens if none of the shortlist fits?

If we miss the first-finalist milestone, you can end the search for a full $2,000 refund. If the milestone is met but no hire starts, the $2,000 covers the search and assessment work; no remaining placement fee is due. Reaching the first milestone does not end the agreed search. We review your feedback and continue the agreed search within its 60-calendar-day window.

Standard · Sample deliverable

See the assessment before you spend interview time.

Review the technical evidence, candidate answers and recruiter judgment behind the recommendation before you book an interview.

This composite Senior LLM Engineer profile illustrates the report format; it is not a record of one individual candidate. For this example role, RAG, retrieval, evaluation and inference are required; fintech experience, multimodal pipelines, diffusion models and GPU kernel tuning are optional.

Sample recommendation

Advance to client interview

The candidate passes this example role’s required RAG, retrieval, evaluation and inference assessments. Recruiter notes confirm motivation, availability and salary alignment. Fintech and multimodal experience are optional gaps. Your team can use this evidence to plan its own technical and team interviews.

AI Technical Assessment

Candidate A
4 questions · 20–30 min interview
85%

Overall AI Score

SENIOR-LEVEL DEPTH

Average 8.5/10 across RAG, retrieval, evals and inference

1
RAG Architecture

Design a RAG system over a 2M-document knowledge base

9/10

Excellent architecture covering chunking strategy, hybrid retrieval, and context-window budgeting.

Takeaway: Production-ready thinking on retrieval quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.

2
Vector Search

Tune retrieval quality: hybrid search, reranking, recall@k

9/10

Comprehensive tuning approach: BM25 + dense hybrid, cross-encoder reranking, recall@k tracking.

Takeaway: Real production retrieval experience — not just framework defaults.

3
Eval Design

Design an eval suite for an open-ended generation task

8/10

Solid LLM-as-judge design with human-rater calibration and regression gates in CI.

Takeaway: Treats evals as engineering infrastructure, not a one-off benchmark.

4
Inference & Cost

Cut p95 latency and cost of a production inference stack

8/10

Walked through a real incident: 1.2s p95 cut to 220ms via speculative decoding and prompt slimming.

Takeaway: Aware of the cost-quality-latency triangle, not just the happy path.

Each candidate gets the full per-question report — answers, evaluations, takeaways.

See a full scorecard

Explore the full sample shortlist PDF

A redacted shortlist PDF, available here after you submit. We use your email to respond to this request.

Proof, not promises

See the evidence before your interview

Watch a real backend-interview example: adaptive follow-ups, a structured technical report, an English assessment and anti-cheating signals for recruiter review.

Voice agentAdaptive follow-upsScored reportAnti-cheat signals

Know what was assessed

Question-level feedback, strengths and gaps give your engineers a starting point for their own interview.

See how they communicate

An English assessment alongside technical answers adds context about how the candidate explains their thinking.

Anti-cheating, with human review

Session signals and an event timeline help recruiters investigate concerns. A flag is a reason to review, not proof of cheating.

How we review anti-cheating signals

Watch on YouTube ↗

Pricing

Choose the support your team needs.

Choose full-service hiring, or active sourcing for your team with ATS and interview tools included.

Full-service hiring

Standard

Hire engineers with less time spent interviewing unsuitable candidates. We assess technical and soft skills before introductions.

18%

of your hire’s first-year salary

$2,000 to launch, included in the 18%. Remaining balance when your hire starts.

  • Sourcing and all agreed technical and soft-skill stages
  • Finalists with confirmed expectations and availability
  • Assessment evidence and support through the final hiring steps

15 business days to the first qualifying finalist, or end the search for a full $2,000 refund.

60 calendar days of search while the vacancy remains open.

90-day replacement cover with one replacement search under the agreed conditions.

If the first-finalist milestone is met but no hire starts, the $2,000 covers the work. No remaining placement fee is due.

Read the Standard terms
Get a search proposal

Recruo Pipeline

We actively source and engage engineers for your roles. Your team reviews candidates and runs interviews.

$3,500

per month for 2 active roles

  • Active sourcing, outreach and follow-ups handled by Recruo
  • Interested candidates in your included Recruo ATS
  • AI agent, note taker and voice assistant
  • Guided onboarding and team training

Your recruiters review and interview candidates. Additional active vacancies are scoped with sales.

Explore Pipeline

Role-specific market intelligence

Hire where you need. Or discover where the market is.

We source across eligible markets in Europe, the US, Canada and Latin America. We map the pool in your required location or compare markets before sourcing begins.

Choose the hiring constraint

Flexible-location capacity map and recommendation shown.

Map my role

Send your role and constraints for a suggested market route.

Recruo sourcing coverage and role-specific capacityA world map of Recruo sourcing coverage across eligible markets in Europe, the United States, Canada and Latin America. In the flexible-location view, an illustrative Europe-wide search compares the depth of AI-ready Android talent across DACH, Central and Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe. Russia and Belarus are not included in the market layer; exact country availability is confirmed for each mandate.
Role-specific capacity mapDACHCEESouthern Europe
Illustrative capacity brief

Senior AI-ready Android Engineer

Target
Europe
Location
Flexible
Markets
Eligible only
15k+Addressable pool
3.4kRelevant core
750+Ideal fit
Search recommendation

Prioritise CEE and Southern Europe for pool depth. Keep a DACH lane when local presence is required.

Illustrative estimate · every must-have verified during screening
Fixed-market sourcing coverageEuropeUSCanadaLATAM
Location-led search

Your open engineering role

Market
Client-defined
Timezone
Required overlap
Eligibility
Verified
ExactRequired market
MatchedTimezone overlap
VerifiedEligibility
How fixed-market search works

Choose the country. We map the reachable pool there, account for timezone and work authorisation, then apply the same technical bar.

Coverage confirmed per mandate · sanctioned markets excluded

Human review & candidate data

Know the process before you start.

Review data handling & request documents
  • A person reviews the evidence

    A recruiter reviews shortlist decisions. Your team makes the final hiring decision.

  • Agree how candidate data is handled

    Confirm candidate notices, access, retention and deletion terms before the search starts.

  • Bring your procurement questions

    Ask for the documents your team needs to review the workflow and agree responsibilities.

FAQ

Questions CTOs actually ask.

More about screening, pricing and working together. The three most common questions are answered above.

Get a search proposal.

Send a role title, a job-description link or a short brief. We’ll reply within 24 hours to agree the selection criteria, search scope, timeline and fee.

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