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Full-service hiring · Standard

Meet 3–5 senior engineers. Ready for your interview.

We source, interview and validate against your role before anyone reaches your team. Meet candidates recommended by our recruiter, backed by AI assessment, candidate answers and a technical scorecard.

First shortlist in 5 business days · 18% on placement · 90-day replacement guarantee

Screening completed. Recommendation explained.·5-day clock starts after approved JD + signed mandate

Built for Series A–C engineering teams

Our recommendations hold up in client interviews. Around 9 in 10 candidates we present pass every stage of the client’s assessment process, including technical interviews. Your team gets the evidence behind each recommendation before the first conversation.

≈9/10Pass every client assessment stage
5 daysMedian time to shortlist · business days
20+Placements with Series A–C teams

Recruo reports 20+ placements with Series A–C scale-ups in UK, DACH and the Nordics. Approximate company-wide observation reported by Recruo’s founder, with scope clarified on 14 September 2026; not a role-specific cohort or a hire rate. See the placement case →

How Standard works

The screening happens before your first interview.

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

    Recommended to your team

    Each candidate has cleared our screening, with AI evidence and a recruiter’s recommendation to advance.

Your team starts with the recommended candidates.

Your CTO, VP Engineering or hiring manager reviews the answers, scorecards and recruiter notes, then runs your interviews and makes the hiring decision.

Three questions buyers ask before the first call

How fast is "5 days to shortlist" really?

Five business days is our median to the first Standard shortlist, starting after the approved job description and signed mandate. By then, the 3–5 recommended candidates have cleared our recruiter and role-specific technical screening. You receive their answers, scorecards and recruiter notes. Executive Search and multi-seat timelines are agreed separately.

Can we engage Recruo for a single role first?

Yes. Start with one approved role and the same full sourcing, recruiter interview and technical-screening process. Standard has no upfront fee: you pay 18% on placement, with a 90-day replacement guarantee under the agreed terms. We can discuss long-term partnership terms as your hiring needs grow.

What happens if none of the shortlist fits?

For Standard, we review your feedback and re-run sourcing at no extra cost. If the second shortlist still misses, you owe nothing: the 18% success fee is due only on placement. Executive Search has a separate exclusive assignment, with its scope and commercial terms agreed privately with sales.

Standard · Sample deliverable

See why each candidate made the shortlist.

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.

Sample recommendation

Advance to client interview

The technical assessment supports production RAG and evaluation experience. Recruiter notes confirm motivation, availability and salary alignment. Explore the fintech domain gap and multimodal experience in your interview.

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

Watch the AI interview actually run

A separate, real backend-interview example shows the voice agent taking consent, probing with adaptive follow-ups, then generating a scored report with anti-cheat signal analysis.

Voice agentAdaptive follow-upsScored reportAnti-cheat signals
Watch on YouTube ↗

Pricing

Choose the support your team needs.

Choose a full-service search, or a recruiting platform with active sourcing built in.

Full-service hiring

Standard

You want Recruo to run sourcing and screening for your hire.

18%

of first-year salary, paid on placement

  • Sourcing, AI screening and human interviews
  • Shortlist of 3–5 candidates per role
  • Optional AI skills validation

No upfront fee. If your hire leaves or is let go within 90 days, we re-run the search at no cost.

Get my shortlist plan

Recruo Pipeline

A recruiting platform with active sourcing built in. Your team reviews candidates and runs interviews.

$2,500

per month for 2 active vacancies

  • ATS with active sourcing, outreach and follow-ups
  • Interested candidates ready for your review
  • 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.

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