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Tech Advisory TL-ADV-104

Technical Hiring Brief Review

A review of your engineering job description and interview process, explaining why strong candidates may be dropping out.

Timeline
4 working days
Deliverables
6 listed
Practice
Tech Advisory
Fixed fee
₹1,499
01Overview

What this engagement delivers

Hiring difficulties are often self-inflicted: a job description listing eleven technologies, a title that undersells the seniority, a take-home task requiring twelve unpaid hours, or a five-stage process that loses candidates to faster employers. We review your posting, process and interview questions, then rewrite the description and propose a shorter loop that still gives you the signal you need. The advice is practical and specific to hiring engineers in India.

02Deliverables 6 items

What you receive

  1. Rewritten job description, honest and specific rather than aspirational
  2. Analysis of which requirements are essential and which deter applicants
  3. Interview process review with a recommended shortened loop
  4. Suggested technical exercise sized at 2 hours rather than a weekend
  5. Comment on salary positioning against the market for the role
  6. Note on where this role is best advertised
03Process

How the work runs, in 4 stages

  1. Stage 1: Send

    You share the job description, process outline and interview questions

  2. Stage 2: Review

    Assessed against how a strong candidate would read it

  3. Stage 3: Rewrite

    Description rewritten and process recommendations drafted

  4. Stage 4: Return

    Documents sent with a short explanation of each change

04Fit & inputs

Who it suits, and what we need from you

Ideal for

  • Companies whose engineering role has been open for months
  • Founders writing their first technical job description
  • Teams whose offers keep being declined at the final stage

What we need from you

  • The current job description and where you have advertised it
  • Your interview stages and the questions you ask
  • Your salary range, kept confidential

You provide these through the technical brief in your dashboard after checkout.

05Benefits

What changes for your team

  • 01

    More qualified applicants from the same advertising spend

  • 02

    A process short enough to compete with faster employers

  • 03

    A take-home exercise candidates are willing to complete

06FAQ

Questions about this engagement

We can join as a technical interviewer under a separate arrangement, quoted on request.

Yes, clearly. Below-market pay is a frequent reason roles stay open.

Only technical roles, including data, DevOps, QA and engineering management.

This is a remote engineering engagement — nothing is shipped physically. Work is delivered into systems you control. See delivery & handover and refunds & cancellation for the full terms.

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Pick the engagement that matches what you need, or tell us about the system you are working on and we will point you to the right starting place.