About Cantaloupe Recruiting
Résumés only tell you about the rind.
We find talented software engineers with analytics we built ourselves, and our own engineers screen them before anyone else does. You meet people whose work has already been checked, not just résumés that look good.
The hiring process is slow because nobody wants to feel like they picked the wrong person.
At a large agency, your role is one of hundreds. It passes through three or four people before anyone starts looking, and most of the time not one of them can read code. They can tell you if a résumé looks good, but not much about the actual person behind it.
So the evaluating lands on your engineers. They lose afternoons to screening calls that should never have been booked, the process stretches into weeks, and the people actually worth hiring accept an offer elsewhere while your pipeline is still working its way through the org chart.
Cantaloupe was built to remove that. We do the evaluating up front — with software we wrote ourselves and technical screens run by people who write code — and we hand you a small number of engineers we can vouch for, with the evidence attached.
How we screen
We go three layers deep. Most searches stop at one.
Every candidate we send you has been through all three. Pick a layer to see what happens there.
Rind, pulp, core — every candidate, every time
For employers
Your engineers stop interviewing people who can't do the job.
The expensive part of hiring isn't our fee — it's the senior engineering hours spent on candidates who were never going to work out. We spend those hours first, so your team only meets people worth their time.
- A shortlist of a few candidates, not a stack of profiles to sift through
- The work sample and our honest read arrive with every candidate, so your first call starts where a third interview usually would
- Fewer interviews per hire, which means less of your engineering week spent in panels
- Faster decisions, so the engineer you want doesn't take another offer while you deliberate
We'd worked with two other agencies on the same role and got the same thing both times — a pile of profiles nobody had actually read. Cantaloupe sent one person, with the code and an honest write-up attached. We got more done in that hour than in all the weeks we'd spent with the other recruiting companies. We made an offer the same week. I don't know why anyone would go back to the old way.
Louis, CEO — Feenix
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