engineers
we’d trust with our own 
product.Every candidate goes through a CV screen, a live interview and a one-day task that we build and run ourselves. In our last hiring round, 5 out of 155 candidates passed.
Our last hiring round, August to October 2026.
Every CV is read against the role: what the person has proven, what they only claim, and the level it points to.
One hour, in person, with a lead engineer. Questions are written for this candidate’s CV.
A small real product: a Flutter app from a Figma file, a React admin screen, a NestJS API, or a QA bug hunt.
We build and run every submission, read its git history and check how honestly the candidate judged their own work.
HR Drone, our own AI recruiting product, runs the first passes. It reads each CV, sorts every claim into proven or only stated, and places the candidate on our level scale from Intern to Senior 3. Then it drafts an interview built to test that reading.
A CV line counts only when the work behind it can be checked.
Name, photo, age, gender, nationality and university are ignored.
The AI writes a recommendation. A lead engineer runs every interview and the Head of Engineering makes every hire.
Each task has known gaps planted in it. A junior usually finds about two, a mid-level engineer three or four, a senior five or six. We count what they find, fix and admit.
Every submission is built and used, with screenshots of what breaks.
Every README must answer it. Honest answers score higher than polished ones.
Candidates may use any AI tool. We test whether they understand what they shipped, and we give their written project brief to a fresh AI agent to see if it can continue the work.
Technical skill and judgment are scored separately. Strong opinions with weak code is still a no.
Asking good questions during the task counts in the candidate’s favour.
We hire people who share our values and want to grow with us. That’s why the engineers who start your product are still there when it scales.
English classes in the office, health insurance for everyone, and team leads whose job includes mentoring.
Thirty minutes with me, not a salesperson. A straight answer on whether we can help, and a first view on how.