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
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.
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.
- ≈100
Profiles considered
We source against your agreed role, salary and market, then narrow the pool through CV screening.
- 20–50
Candidates interviewed
Recruiter interviews and role-specific AI technical screening establish skills, motivation and fit.
- 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 AOverall AI Score
SENIOR-LEVEL DEPTH
Average 8.5/10 across RAG, retrieval, evals and inference
Design a RAG system over a 2M-document knowledge base
Excellent architecture covering chunking strategy, hybrid retrieval, and context-window budgeting.
Takeaway: Production-ready thinking on retrieval quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
Tune retrieval quality: hybrid search, reranking, recall@k
Comprehensive tuning approach: BM25 + dense hybrid, cross-encoder reranking, recall@k tracking.
Takeaway: Real production retrieval experience — not just framework defaults.
Design an eval suite for an open-ended generation task
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.
Cut p95 latency and cost of a production inference stack
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 scorecardExplore the full sample shortlist PDF
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.
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
Real interview, real report — published with consent from everyone on screen; personal contact details are blurred. English captions start automatically. The full cut opens with the recruiter-led soft-skills screen before the AI agent connects. This is a separate backend example, not the candidate in the shortlist preview above.
Standard · 18% total · $2,000 to start, included
Hire with less engineering interview time
We source and assess candidates before introducing them. Your engineers focus on candidates who passed the agreed technical and soft-skill stages; we support your interviews and offer process.
Plan a full-service searchPipeline · $3,500/month for 2 active roles
Sourcing for your recruiting team
We research candidates, run outreach and follow up. Your team reviews interested candidates and runs interviews with Recruo ATS, the AI agent, note taker and voice assistant included.
Explore Recruo PipelinePricing
Choose the support your team needs.
Choose full-service hiring, or active sourcing for your team with ATS and interview tools included.
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 termsRecruo 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 PipelineRole-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.
Flexible-location capacity map and recommendation shown.
Map my roleSend your role and constraints for a suggested market route.
Illustrative capacity brief
Senior AI-ready Android Engineer
- Target
- Europe
- Location
- Flexible
- Markets
- Eligible only
Prioritise CEE and Southern Europe for pool depth. Keep a DACH lane when local presence is required.
Illustrative estimate · every must-have verified during screeningLocation-led search
Your open engineering role
- Market
- Client-defined
- Timezone
- Required overlap
- Eligibility
- Verified
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 excludedHuman review & candidate data
Know the process before you start.
Review data handling & request documentsA 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.
Standard costs 18% of your hire’s first-year salary. Pay $2,000 to launch the search, fully credited toward that fee. The remaining balance is payable when your hire starts. We agree the salary basis before payment; for a salary in another currency, we also agree how the USD launch payment is credited. For a $70,000 salary, the total fee is $12,600, compared with $15,400 at an illustrative 22% rate. The fee includes sourcing, the agreed technical and soft-skill selection, finalist introductions and support through the final hiring steps.
The search runs for 60 calendar days from the agreed launch date. If we have not introduced a qualifying finalist by the end of business day 15, you can end the search and receive your full $2,000 back. We continue searching and assessing while the role remains open within that window, and support the final hiring steps.
A finalist has passed all technical and soft-skill assessment stages agreed for your role. Before introduction, we confirm their interest, compensation expectations, working arrangements and availability. You receive the evidence, our recommendation and any remaining questions before meeting them. Your team can run its own technical, hiring-manager and team interviews before making the hiring decision; Recruo supports the process through to hire.
If your hire leaves or is let go within their first 90 days from starting, we provide one replacement search of up to 60 days at no additional recruitment fee, subject to the replacement conditions agreed before launch. This provides a replacement search rather than a cash refund of the placement fee.
Our AI interview uses follow-up questions and produces session-integrity signals for recruiter review. These signals indicate concerns; they do not prove cheating. A recruiter reviews the candidate evidence before shortlist handoff. Ask us which Secure Browser controls are available for the agreed interview format.
Yes. We can scope junior roles alongside mid and senior searches. Standard is 18% of first-year salary; role suitability and the search brief are agreed with our team.
AI helps structure screening; a human recruiter reviews the shortlist and its evidence before client handoff. Data handling, candidate notices and the responsibilities of each party should be agreed for the engagement. This workflow supports human oversight; it is not a certification or a guarantee that every use complies with the EU AI Act.
For placement searches, we support Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable via native exports, and other systems via CSV/Zapier. Recruo Pipeline provides active sourcing with Recruo ATS and interview tools included. We handle candidate research, outreach and follow-ups. You review interested candidates and run interviews in the Recruo workspace with the included AI tools.
$3,500 per month covers active sourcing for 2 concurrent roles: candidate research, outreach and follow-ups handled by Recruo. Interested candidates arrive in your included Recruo ATS workspace for review. Your team runs interviews with the AI agent, note taker and voice assistant. Recruitment tools, onboarding and team training are included; additional active-role capacity is agreed with sales.
We source across Europe — Ukraine and Poland are our deepest networks — plus Latin America and North America, matched to your timezone, budget and work-authorisation needs. Channels: LinkedIn Recruiter, DOU, Djinni, Just Join IT, regional communities and our private network. All candidates are remote-ready.
The candidate. We use consent-first processing aligned with GDPR, delete data on request, and never share candidate information with third parties without explicit consent.
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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Olena Ponomarchuk
Chief Business Development Officer
Your hiring brief, scope and commercial terms.
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Maryna Hrynyshyna
Technical Recruitment Lead
Technical sourcing, candidate interviews and shortlist review.


