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@jaketital Thanks for asking. We spent a lot of time & effort into crafting our vetting processes and we have a pretty big team working purely on vetting.
Our acceptance rate is around 0.5% (qualification and vetting together) and the full vetting looks like this:
1️⃣ Sourcing
We comb through 500+ job boards, dev communities, and LinkedIn-land for great devs. Those developers become part of our sourcing pipeline after we carefully screen their CVs, LinkedIn, and GitHub profiles. We have a dedicated team to screen at this stage.
2️⃣ Technical vetting
after sourcing, each candidate is interviewed by an Engineering Manager interviewer with 9+ years of experience. This is not a simple chat, it's the technical interview that cut a lot of candidates from the previous step. Our tech recruiters run hundreds of tech interviews and each of them has a specific tech focus.
3️⃣ Soft skills interview
We have an internal HR team that is focused on soft skills. Those are talented senior recruiters & people managers whose job is to define if the soft skills of the developer match the typically required skills for startups. We check communication skills and screen out devs that aren’t learning-focused, team players.
4️⃣ Startup-readiness
As part of our vetting, we pick developers who understand what it means to have ownership and work in A STARTUP. We select developers who prove they thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment.
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@jaketital Hi Jake!
Developers go through:
1 - soft skills screening with our internal recruiters (probably the largest team at Lemon, it truly requires a lot of time, knowledge, and effort)
2 - hard skills interviews. These are run by external senior engineers from other companies. This makes them more objective. Those external tech interviewers have no personal benefit in Lemon having more devs. So they do a very objective tech screening.
3 - English tests
4 - recommendations
I wouldn't say it's a must-have, but since we've been doing this for 8 years and screened thousands of developers, we also have an understanding of what tech universities/schools are good and reliable.
Team, congrats on the launch 🎉 Love your products and amazing branding.
🤔 I’d love to understand how will it technically work. If I’m launching a new product with my current company and need to hire, how will you find me a developer so fast?
@adiatlov Our secret source is an available huge talent pool that we've been working on for many years. We have 80,000+ developers who are open to joining teams in-house.
On top of that, we created robust internal matching processes that combine auto-matching and a dedicated matching manager. So when your request comes, we will be able to find you a developer in 48 hours or less and set up an interview asap.
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I was so happy to take part in developing this product 🫶
@what_if_dasha thank you for the question. Depending on what agencies to compare with.
In the product where we offer on-demand engineers, we have a wider network, can allocate resources much faster, and charge a fraction of the markup of dev agencies.
In the product we launched today, we compare it with recruiting agencies. Time to hire is 10x faster, we charge a lower hiring fee, and all candidates have been tested for soft and hard skills.
@what_if_dasha@volodarik To add to what Aleksandr wrote:
Our main differentiations 👇
✅ The time to show the first candidate is less than 48h vs agencies take 2 weeks
✅ The time for you to get an interview set up is 48h vs agencies take 2 weeks
✅ Our candidate's pool is 80 000+ developers vs agencies might have up to thousands of candidates
✅ We have soft skills and hard skills vetting, our candidates are technically interviewed vs agencies do not have any technical vetting
✅ We propose 30 days replacement guarantees and the ability to work with the developer before you decide to hire vs agencies often don't have those options
✅ We charge a fix flat fee which is more affordable than the agency commission of 15-20% of the yearly salary
Does it sound good enough?
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Aww, that's great opportunity for engineers! Congrats with launch!
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