Engineering Recruitment

Hire the Right Engineer in Weeks—Without Slowing Your Team Down

Choose from just 3–4 fully vetted candidates—without long hiring cycles, costly mistakes, or derailing your roadmap.

3–4
candidates per role
Weeks
not months
70%
stay 2+ years
20%
promoted yr 1
The Problem

Hiring Has Become a Distraction You Can't Afford

You open a role—and suddenly, everything slows.
You're flooded with applicants who look good on paper, but not so good live.
Your interview process feels like it's missing something.
Strong candidates drop out before the offer stage.
Even after all that effort—you're still not confident until 90 days on the job.

You won't say it out loud — but you're walking on eggshells until the 90-day mark proves you right.

Every open role costs your team focus, momentum, and time they don't have to spare.

It's time-consuming, frustrating, and too important to get wrong.
The Real Issue

You're Not the Problem. The Process Is.

You weren't trained to build a hiring system.
You were just tossed into the mix, and expected to get it right.

So you do your best:
You interview. You compare. You debate.

But without a clear system, it feels like guesswork.
It's more like rolling the dice than running a bankable business process.

And when it doesn't work, the weight of it settles in

The team's morale takes a hit and confidence dims
Deadlines slip — failure feels like a gut-punch
"I quietly wonder what my boss is thinking"
The bottom line

Hiring great talent shouldn't bring your team's progress to a standstill.

Your Guide

A Better Way to Hire—Without the Guesswork

I understand

I know how frustrating it is to spend untold hours interviewing and still feel like you're walking on eggshells for the first 90 days—waiting to find out if your decision was right.

That uncertainty doesn't have to be the price of hiring.

What I do

I help software leaders hire the right-fit first time, from a fully vetted shortlist—so you make confident decisions quickly. And I help close hiring process gaps so your team gets better accuracy with every search.


Instead of investing hours into dozens of "maybes," you choose from a few clear "yes" options.

3–4 candidatesper role, fully vetted
Weeks, not monthsto fill open roles
70% retentionover 2 years
20% promotedwithin the first year
Hiring process improvementso every future search is sharper than the last
Jonathan Schultz
Jonathan Schultz
Hiring Strategist & Software Recruiter
20+ years building software teams for high-growth startups

"Too often hiring was the job that kept us from doing our job. Glad that's over."

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CTO  ·  SF Bay Area Scaleup
The Process

Proven Hiring System. Dependable Results.

01

Define Success

We build a clear, 360° definition of your ideal hire—so everyone knows exactly what "right" looks like.

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A 360° role profile goes far beyond skills and experience. We define leadership style, engineering culture, team culture, environmental factors, motivation, problem-solving, ownership, growth trajectory, planning, execution, values, and likely impact—so the search is aligned with what success actually looks like.

02

Source & Vet

Targeted small-batch outbound sourcing to find, engage, and fully vet candidates who match your team's needs across a dozen or more factors—not just hard skills.

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We don't use job ads or spam blasts. We carefully curate high-probability candidates, then vet and sell each one thoroughly against the full 360° profile before they make your shortlist.

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Interview with Confidence

You meet just 3–4 highly qualified candidates. Where needed, we help teams adopt techniques that attract rather than repel—while addressing a wider span of success factors.

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Most interview processes are designed to filter—not to assess. They grew in response to easy-button volume, requiring a fast way to "weed out the weak."

We help teams shift to a "seek the strong" posture—driven by interviews that reduce bias and surface genuine signal. Then we leverage structured assessment that results in objective decisions and no second-guessing.

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Process improvement

Assess & Improve Your Hiring Loop

We review your hiring loop to identify gaps creating false positives, inconsistent scoring, or weak decisions—then recommend practical fixes.

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Clearer evaluation criteria, signal-rich structured assessments, and scorecards that make each future search better than the last. This step turns a one-time search into a lasting capability for your team.

No commitment required to start the conversation.

Why We're Different

We Don't Compete Your Candidates Against Other Clients

When we introduce a candidate to you, we protect that relationship. You're not racing against other companies. You're not losing candidates to competing offers we helped create. You get a fair, focused opportunity to hire the right person.

Candidates introduced to you are yours alone — not shared across clients
No competing offers engineered on our end to drive urgency
A focused, pressure-free environment to make the right decision

What You Can Count On

🏋️

We handle the heavy lifting

We streamline your process

🛠️

We equip your team with better tools

🤝

We stay with you from start to finish

Our Guarantee

Risk Comes Out of the Equation.

If a placed candidate leaves or is not performing to the agreed standard within 90 days, we will run a replacement search at no additional fee. This replacement guarantee remains in effect for the full first year of the candidate's employment.

1yr
Replacement Guarantee
On Investment

Standard agency pricing.
Non-standard results.

Our fees are in line with what you'd expect from a senior technical recruiter. What's different is what's included — exclusive candidate relationships and hiring process improvement built into every search, at no additional fee.

Exclusive candidates
Not shared across clients
Process improvement
Included in every search
1-year guarantee
Risk removed entirely

Exact fees discussed during your Q&A call — no surprises, no pressure.

Ready when you are

Ready to Make Your Next Great Hire?

No commitment. Just a clear look at how this works.

If Nothing Changes

What Happens If Nothing Changes?

With the Right Partner

What Hiring Should Feel Like

Hiring continues to drag on
Engineering time gets wasted
Deadlines slip as focus gets divided
A bad hire sets you back months — costs you twice
The pressure to "get it right next time" only increases
The cost isn't just time — it's momentum, trust, and credibility.
Instead of sorting endless candidates, you choose between a few strong options
Instead of second-guessing, you're confident in your decision
Instead of long drawn-out cycles, you're making timely hires with minimal disruption
Confident. On time. No eggshells.
What success looks like
📅

Open roles filled in weeks, not months

Clear, confident hiring decisions

🚀

A team that performs — and is easy to lead

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Respect from leadership for getting it right

Client Voices

What Engineering Leaders Are Saying

"I was always worried I'd miss weeding out the one that shouldn't have got to the interview stage — so much wasted time. Finally, I have the right tools, and I never give it a thought."

"Finally, I can fill an open seat without the panic of '10 days or 10 weeks.' That endless loop is closed."

"Too often hiring was the job that kept us from doing our job. Glad that's over."

Common Questions

Things Worth Knowing Before We Talk

A few questions that come up often. If something isn't covered here, we'll walk through it on your Q&A call — no pressure, no pitch.

How long does a typical search take?
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Most searches result in a shortlist of 3–4 candidates within 2–3 weeks, depending on role complexity and how quickly we align on the success profile in Step 1.
How is this different from posting on LinkedIn or using a staffing agency?
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Job boards give you volume — we give you signal. We don't post ads, send job spam, or wait for applicants. We identify and approach a tightly curated group of candidates, engage them, vet them against your full 360° profile, simultaneously sell them on your unique opportunity, and only present those who genuinely fit. And unlike most agencies, we never share candidates across clients.
What does the hiring process improvement actually look like?
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We review your current interview loop — your process steps, the questions you ask, how you score candidates, and where decision making tends to get fuzzy. Then we recommend specific fixes: clearer evaluation criteria, structured assessments, interview techniques, and custom tools that surface real signal.
Got more questions?
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Send us your question and we'll answer within 24 hours — usually faster. info@hireinreverse.com
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