A startup executive’s time is precious. Even more precious when you’re pioneering an entirely new market with major recording artists and companies. 

Venkat Ganesan is the Chief Technology Officer of Yoop, a virtual events platform that creates spaces to allow musicians and performers to connect in a new and more intimate way. The company exploded onto the scene during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Yoop eSpaces that brought artists and fans together in a safe, virtual way when mass gatherings were not allowed. These spaces created a high-quality production, at a fraction of the cost of traditional events or tours. 

With the massive growth of the platform over the past two years, Yoop needed to scale their engineering team. The problem? Time. 

“I was spending half an hour to an hour a day sourcing,” Venkat said. “And I still wasn’t spending as much time on recruiting as I wanted to.” 

The Problem: Candidate Quality and Transparency 

With an increasingly packed schedule, Venkat was juggling multiple sourcing tools to find good, mid-level engineering talent. The team tried platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter, AngelList and ZipRecruiter, but encountered several problems during the interview process.  

“It’s not that the tools were inaccurate, but the interview pass rate was poor,” said Venkat. Despite meticulously tweaking search filters and candidate criteria, Yoop still wasn’t getting the quality of candidates they needed. 

“We’d get candidates who said they have web development or engineering experience and when it came time to chat with them, their experience would be way off.” 

To make matters worse, the Yoop team found while sourcing that engineers rarely responded, which ultimately meant that much of the time spent sourcing was a waste. They needed to find alternative options for sourcing quality technical talent in order to continue growing the Yoop event platform. Through a rigorous evaluation process, Triplebyte stood out as the clear frontrunner in terms of the platform's focus on technically-vetted, relevant talent. 

The Solution:  A Warm Pipeline of Pre-Vetted Engineers

Almost immediately, Venkat found success with Triplebyte. Sourcing engineering candidates for web developer, backend, and iOS roles, he made two hires and had offers out to four other candidates within weeks of onboarding with Triplebyte. He found that Triplebyte Magnet effortlessly generated a high-quality candidate pool that passed his interview process at significantly higher rates than candidates sourced elsewhere. Magnet’s automated sourcing capabilities unearthed candidates that Venkat wasn’t finding himself. 

Venkat mentioned that prior to using Triplebyte, 50-60% of the talent he sourced from other platforms wouldn’t even make the first cut in the interview process. Almost half of the time he spent on top-of-funnel candidates was essentially wasted. 

“Now, with Triplebyte 70-80% of candidates clear the first round, and it has been great to see that the candidates coming in actually show the technical aptitude they claim to possess.” 

By partnering with Triplebyte and using Magnet, Venkat said he no longer has to source for an hour or more each day. He finds that at least 80% of the engineering candidates that come to him via Triplebyte match his requirements. 

“Triplebyte gives me a solid pool of candidates and allows me to search with a high degree of flexibility. This was the first time I didn’t rely on the application process. Triplebyte provides a much wider pool and a solid response rate.”

Venkat Ganesan, Chief Technology Officer at Yoop

As Yoop continues to scale, Venkat hopes Triplebyte will continue delivering quality candidates so Yoop can continue to innovate the live events space.

What can Triplebyte do for your team? 

By automating the most tedious aspects of the recruiting process, Triplebyte helps teams identify and convert the right talent as efficiently as possible. Focusing on pre-qualified, pre-assessed engineering candidates, Triplebyte empowers Yoop to hire the technical talent needed to achieve the team’s product development goals. 

Is your recruiting process optimized to deliver high-quality candidates as rapidly as possible? If you could benefit from more relevant technical candidates, contact us today for a personalized demo to review top candidates for your role.