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
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.
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.
- ≈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
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 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
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.
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% on placement
Run the search for us
We source and screen. Your team meets the shortlist and makes the hiring decision.
Plan a full-service searchPipeline · $2,500/month for 2 active roles
An ATS with active sourcing built in
Set your hiring requirements. Review interested candidates, give feedback and run interviews in Recruo Pipeline.
Explore Recruo PipelinePricing
Choose the support your team needs.
Choose a full-service search, or a recruiting platform with active sourcing built in.
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 planRecruo 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 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.
Our Standard success fee is exactly 18% of first-year salary. On a $70K placement, that's $12,600 versus $15,400 with a classical 22% agency — $2,800 saved per hire. The fee covers the full six-step flow: sourcing, AI CV screening, a human soft-skills interview and a role-specific AI technical interview, with every result reviewed by a human recruiter before the shortlist reaches you. There are no upfront fees and no retainer on the Standard plan — you pay once, on placement — and every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee: if the hire leaves or is let go within the first 90 days, we re-run the search at no cost.
Around 9 in 10 candidates we present pass every stage of the client’s assessment process. This includes technical interviews and the other client assessment stages. It describes candidates presented after our screening. Offers, acceptance and start dates are separate outcomes. 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. Sample size, reporting period and treatment of ongoing assessments are not yet published.
We agree your hiring requirements, source a broader pool, screen CVs, run recruiter interviews and conduct role-specific AI technical screening. The recruiter reviews the assessment evidence and recommends 3–5 candidates to advance to your interviews. You can review their answers, scorecards, strengths, gaps and recruiter notes before meeting them. Pool and interview counts vary by vacancy; your team owns the client assessment and final hiring decision.
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 is a subscription to our ATS with active sourcing built in. You review interested candidates and run interviews in the Recruo workspace with the included AI tools.
$2,500 per month includes Recruo ATS and active sourcing for 2 concurrent vacancies. Candidate research, outreach and follow-ups are included. Review interested candidates in your workspace, then run interviews with the AI agent, note taker and voice assistant. Onboarding, recruitment tools and team training are included; additional active-role capacity is agreed with sales.
We source across the EU — 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.
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