Engineer led hiring
First 5 hires
of CTC on joining day
Why HubNugget
Hiring an engineer shouldn't mean sorting through resumes and hoping the right person makes it to the interview. We source and screen candidates with an engineer's perspective, so your team can focus on the people worth meeting.
Today
Ashby 2026 Talent Trends. 24.7 interview hours per engineering hire, across the hiring team, not one engineer. The report covers 109 million applications and 247,000 jobs from January 2021 through March 2026.
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Average interview time per engineering hire
Cumulative interview hours
Total interview time per engineering hire.
Total interview time for the hiring team on one engineering hire.
With HubNugget
We review relevant technical experience, projects, role-specific skills and communication before presenting candidates. Your team starts with a focused shortlist instead of doing all the initial filtering itself.
Today
interviewing.io and Learning Collider. 76 technical recruiters, more than 1,000 engineering resumes, about 2,200 decisions. A match means the interview recommendation agreed with that person's first mock technical interview on interviewing.io. Not a rate for every recruiter.
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Accuracy in one technical recruiter study
In this study, a yes or no on the resume matched a later technical interview 55% of the time.
With HubNugget
An engineer reviews the candidate's relevant experience, projects and role-specific skills before recommending them. A resume is the starting point, not the final decision.
Today
Many resumes
Manual sorting
Interviews
A long list of profiles still leaves the founder or engineering team to figure out who is worth interviewing.
With HubNugget
10–15
Our intended shortlist size per batch
HubNugget's service approach, not an industry benchmark.
Source
Screen
Shortlist
Repeat if needed
Candidates screened and presented in each batch
We source and screen a focused group against your requirements. If the right person isn't in that batch, we refine the search and bring you the next set. We stay involved until the role is filled.
A focused shortlist. Engineer-led screening. We stay until the role is filled.
From the founder
I've spent more than a decade building software, in product companies and in services. HubNugget is the product I built so a business can meet the right candidates.
It started as a hiring tool. The real problem turned out to be finding people worth interviewing. I've been the engineer in the room, and I've been the one hiring. That is the screen HubNugget runs before your team spends its time.
How HubNugget hires
You send the role. An engineer screens. You meet about 10 to 15 people at a time. HubNugget stays until the role is filled.
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A vague brief produces a vague shortlist. When the role says what the person will actually build, the people who reach the pipeline have done that kind of work. The hiring team meets candidates aimed at this job.
FAQ
You send the role. HubNugget researches it, sources candidates, and an engineer screens them. You interview a shortlist of about 10 to 15 people at a time and you decide. If that batch is not the hire, the search continues until the role is filled or you stop it. The invoice is raised on joining day and is payable within 15 days.
The first five placements are 8% of CTC. From the sixth placement on, the fee is 10% of CTC. The invoice is raised on the day the candidate joins and is payable within 15 days.
If the placed engineer leaves or is let go within 90 days for fit or performance reasons covered by the engagement, HubNugget runs one free replacement search for the same role. That replacement is once. It is not a cash refund.
The placement fee is still due. If HubNugget introduced that person for the role, hiring them directly does not remove the fee.
The invoice is raised on joining day and is payable within 15 days, not when the search starts. A search that ends with nobody joining has no invoice. You interview the shortlist and you make the hiring decision. Not every person on the shortlist will be hired.
Screening is engineer led and tied to the role. Candidates who reach you are not a volume list. HubNugget does not publish a success rate for that claim.
An engineer who has shipped software can look at real experience, projects, and role-specific skills before your team spends interview time. A resume keyword match is the starting point, not the decision.
Tell HubNugget about the role. We will tell you if we can fill it and how fast.
