Making 16 direct Engineering hires on cord

"We've hired 16 Engineers through cord. The value we've found in cord is the volume of hard-to-find technical candidates, coupled with higher response rates than any other product we have used. "

Asil Choudhury on cord
Asil Choudhury, Talent Partner at Thought Machine

30

direct hires through cord

60%

positive response rate from Engineers

cord usage

16 direct hires
536 people sourced
26 positions
7 users
Greater London

About Thought Machine

Thought Machine is a leading London FinTech company which works with banks to revolutionise the way banking technology is delivered to users. Having received £11 million in funding from Lloyds Bank they are rapidly expanding their team to help with the demands of their growth. ThoughtMachine have doubled the size of their team in the last 8 months and plan to hire over 100 more people this year. Asil Choudhury is a Talent Partner at ThoughtMachine, working through Talentful.
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Our Goal

We needed to expand our Engineering Team in line with our company growth plans. This meant hiring Engineers across multiple disciples and experience levels, at scale.

Our Situation

Scaling Our Team

Having received significant investment from Lloyds Bank, we needed to scale our team quickly. We had multiple requirements at Junior to Senior level across all our technical positions, including Front-End, Back End and Site Reliability Engineers.


Quality and Quantity

The technical bar at ThoughtMachine is incredibly high, and we needed to hire at scale. So it was really important to us to use a product that provided quality technical people in a high volume.

Using cord

Highly Responsive Candidates

The immediate value we found in cord was that the response rates were much higher than any other platform we have used, and there is a volume of hard-to-find technical skill sets available. Specifically for us, this includes JavaScript. Java, Python and Go Engineers.

We’ve found hundreds of qualified candidates and our response rate from candidates on cord is 52% positive.


Saving Time

Being able to save personalised templates, being immediately notified of relevant candidates and managing everything in one place makes cord incredibly time effective to use.

The time we save sourcing, allows us to spend more time actually speaking to qualified technical candidates.

Our Result

We've hired 16 Engineers on cord. This includes Back End Engineers, Front End Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers.

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