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Making 30 engineering hires who meet our high technical bar
"We have around 60% positive response rate, which in comparison to other platforms is amazing. It's an internal recruiter's dream to have that many quality people coming back to you. It's really, really successful for Thought Machine. "
30
Total hires made60%
response rate from engineerscord usage
30 direct hires
817 people sourced
10 positions
7 users
Greater London
About Thought Machine
Thought Machine is solving one of the biggest problems in banking. Since launching in 2014, our mission has been to liberate banks from outdated, legacy technology which stifles their ability to innovate. Thought Machine’s core product is a cloud-native, core banking engine built to run any type of bank - from established Tier 1 banks all the way to new challenger banks.
View websiteView cord profileThought Machine was recognised on LinkedIn’s Top Startups List (2019) and named in Fintech 50 (2019). We pride ourselves on having an excellent internal culture, where we take cultural fit as important as technical fit when we make new hires. At Thought Machine, we strive hard to create a fast-paced, supportive and fun working environment to enable the team to produce the best technical work in the industry.
Our Goal
We needed to scale our Engineering team during the lockdown, whilst keeping the technical bar very high.
Our Situation
Scaling our team with quality Engineers
At Thought Machine we needed to continue to scale our team. Our CEO is ex-google and the major challenge is finding enough volume of candidates that reach our high technical bar. We knew that this would mean we couldn't just rely on the same old channels like LinkedIn or job boards.
A source we could trust
The team had had a lot of success from cord historically - we'd made 15 or so hires in the past - so we knew that as we entered the next phase of our growth that cord would play an important role. It's something that we all use daily, and it's super user-friendly. You get notified daily with new candidates matching your skills, and for some positions, we've had over 80% of the people we message come back positively.
Using cord
cord is what we had all hoped LinkedIn would be
The difference between cord and something like Linkedin, is that with cord is that candidates are on there specifically looking for jobs. This means you get more positive responses. Across the year over 60% of all the candidates we've messages have responded positively. cord is what we had all hoped LinkedIn would be.
Quality of candidates
cord really offers something different to us. The calibre of candidates that cord attracts is second to none. cord proves it's worth very quickly. You get direct access to candidates, with all the information upfront. All you need to do is message them. In the last six months, we've had hundreds of really high-quality candidates in our pipeline from cord.