Placement Profile

The Client: Following a recent round of funding this startup, backed by Canvas Ventures, wanted to rapidly scale their engineering team.  They had poured several hours into interviewing over 20 candidates, with none making it past the technical challenge. They were increasingly frustrated that they couldn’t find the right person.   The Candidate: The ideal…

One of our specialized recruiters, Mike, kept in touch with the Head of Cloud Infrastructure at a Series C FinTech startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz.   In February 2020, the hiring manager reached out with an urgent need for their first Site Reliability Engineers. The bar was set very high: They wanted top academic pedigrees,…

Last year, we started supporting a Series A startup backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners that was rapidly scaling, dealing with recent turnover, and in search of Full Stack Engineers, Open Source Engineers, a Platform Engineer, and an Engineering Manager.    Joey, one of our senior recruiters, met with the VP of Engineering and had an…

A Palo Alto-based Series A startup backed by Emergence Capital had run internal and external searches for a Senior Frontend Engineer for over 180 days, after losing their top candidate to another offer.    Specific challenges: Culture fit – Several candidates they previously interviewed came across as arrogant or just had low-EQ. Technical ability – Almost none…

A Bay Area seed-stage Robotics/AI startup had been searching for a Principal Software Engineer for over 90 days. Their backlog was filling up, putting pressure on the entire engineering department.   We worked with their Head of Engineering to understand the nuances of the position, technical environment, company culture, and long term plans. We also focused on what…