300day-one wave, with email
1 in 72 made the day-one wave · 1 day from brief to handoff
- 21,713candidates mapped
- 3,300ranked for outreach
- 25confirmed twice
Recruiting · engineering talent
Two boolean strings in. Monday morning’s 300 out.
The brief
“Data-platform engineers in the Bay Area, open-source contributors preferred.”
Two search strings the recruiting team had been running by hand, with a quarter of sourcing ahead of them.
How we solved it
Ran the brief two ways in one day: from public code to the person, and from career history back to the code.
Track one found who is visibly committing to Flink, Spark, Kafka and Iceberg; track two kept open source as a weight, not a wall.
Where the two tracks agree is the shortlist nobody else can see — ranked by fit and reachability into three waves.
Handed over
- 21,713 candidates, 134 fields each, with the reason for every pick
- three outreach waves ranked by fit and reachability — 300 on top for day one
- 25 engineers confirmed by both methods, each with email and full career history
A week of outreach ready on day one: 300 people ranked first, every one with an email and the reason for the pick.
The same brief ran again on fresh data five months later — the same two tracks, a new wave of contacts.