Interview screening
Your first round, handled
I run your first-round technical screens and hand back a written scorecard with a clear pass or fail. Your team keeps the onsite, and the hiring decision stays yours.
- Hundreds
- Interviews conducted, technical and non-technical
- 25+ years
- In software, since 2000
The cost
First rounds eat your senior engineers
Screening has the worst ratio in hiring: the most senior time spent per decision actually made, and most of those decisions are a no. It is also the easiest part of the loop to hand off, because it is the part with a repeatable bar.
- An hour of senior engineering time per candidate, before anyone has been advanced.
- A bar that drifts, because a different engineer screens every week.
- Slow scheduling, so strong candidates take another offer while they sit in your queue.
What you get
A scorecard, not a gut feel
Every screen comes back in the same shape, so candidates are comparable to each other rather than to whoever happened to interview them.
Scored dimensions
Each candidate rated against the dimensions we agree up front — coding, systems thinking, debugging and communication by default.
A clear pass or fail
One unambiguous recommendation, so there are no maybes left to relitigate in a hiring meeting.
Written notes
What was asked, what they did with it and where they got stuck — enough for your onsite to go deeper instead of starting over.
An agreed turnaround
Turnaround is fixed per pipeline before the first screen, so scheduling stops being the reason you lose people.
The decision stays yours. I give you a recommendation and the evidence behind it; your team runs the onsite and makes the call.
Track record
Hundreds of interviews, from both sides of the table
I have been interviewing engineers since long before it was a service line — as a team lead, as an architect, and as a CTO answerable for the bar my own teams hired against. Technical and non-technical, junior through senior.
Start the conversation
Tell me about your pipeline
Volume and seniority are what I need in order to say yes, no, or quote a number. The more precise you are, the faster the answer.