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10 direct hires made, saving £150,000 compared to using an agency
"You can send a message to someone in the morning, have a response within an hour, be speaking to them two hours later. cord just speeds up the whole process."
10
direct hires made£150,000
saved compared to using an agencycord usage
10 direct hires
25 positions
7 users
Greater London
About Depop
Depop are a technology led social marketplace where over 16M people come to buy, sell and discover unique items. They are on a global mission to transform fashion through building the most evocative buying and selling experience, utilizing the latest technologies.
View websiteView cord profileDepop are going through a large technical scale-up, hiring for Mobile, Back End, Design, Data, and QA positions in London on cord.
Our Goal
We wanted to hire technical people at scale, and needed to immediately add people to our pipelines across all our roles.
Our Situation
Scaling our tech team
I was brought into Depop to help scale their technology hiring. We needed to hire multiple people across all of our technical positions, ranging from Back End and Front End Engineering roles all the way to QA, Product and Design.
Getting set up
We had heard good things about cord from people in our network so decided to try cord. Getting set up on cord was really easy, we had the profile built for us and very quickly we had interviews arranged.
Using cord
Immediately added to our pipeline
The immediate benefit is that it added volume to our pipeline of technical candidates, due to the quantity of actively looking people on cord.
cord has also helped contribute to our growing presence as a tech employer in London, alongside diversifying the type of candidates we were speaking to.
Hiring Engineers
Having access to a volume of technical people who are actively looking for permanent positions in London has proved incredibly valuable.
We typically get 60% positive response rates to the messages we send out and cord has allowed us to source hundreds of people looking to work at high growth technology companies. Since signing up we've hired multiple technical people.