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Most staffing firms screen engineers with recruiters. We screen them with engineers.

A recruiter can match keywords on a resume. Only an engineer can tell whether someone can actually do the work.

Tech Talent compared with a typical staffing firm

TopicA typical staffing firmTech Talent
Who vetsA recruiter, usually not technicalEngineers who do the same work
What they checkResume keywords, years of experience, a short phone screenReal work in your stack: a technical test graded by an engineer, then a technical interview about that test
How they understand your roleThey copy your job descriptionAn engineer defines your four must-haves with you (your hiring plan)
What you receiveA pile of resumes2⁠–⁠3 profiles, each with the engineer’s scorecard, what they built, strengths and watch-outs, and a recorded intro in English
Who you talk toA salespersonSomeone who understands the technical work
After the hireAn invoiceDocumentation from day one, and a replacement with a full handover if it isn’t the right fit

A bad hire doesn’t cost the recruiter. It costs you. So an engineer vets every candidate before you ever meet them.

How every candidate is vetted.

See an example scorecard

  1. English video + tests

    A recorded video intro, plus written language and logic tests.

  2. Technical test for your stack

    Real problems from the role you’re hiring for, graded by an engineer.

  3. Live interview with an engineer

    How they think, debug and make trade-offs.

  4. Client-readiness interview

    How they communicate, take ownership and keep a client updated.

  5. Trained for US teams

    Async updates, Slack, Loom, estimates, and documenting their work from day one.

Why we started

Tech Talent was started by a tech professional who has been on both sides of hiring: working next to brilliant teammates, and next to people who should never have made it through the door. The difference was rarely the resume. It was how they were vetted, and most of the time nobody technical was vetting them.

Companies kept reaching out with more work than one person could take on. So the answer was to recommend tech people we knew were good. It worked.

Tech Talent turns that into a process. An engineer defines with you what the role really needs. Every candidate is tested on real work in your stack and interviewed by an engineer who does the same kind of work, before you ever see a profile.

You get the engineer’s scorecard, what each candidate built and what to watch out for, so you choose on evidence, not on a resume. And if someone isn’t the right fit, we replace them, with a full handover.

Tell us the role. We’ll take it from there.

$3,500/month per hire. Nothing to pay until their first day.