The Cred Code: What Kunal Shah Looked for in His Founding Team (and Why It Worked)
CRED’s early team was built around execution machines. The first hires included top engineers, product managers, analytics experts, and campaign leads.
Take-Home vs Live Coding: The Debate Every Hiring Manager Knows Too Well
Live coding does give you something take-homes can’t: a window into how someone thinks out loud.
Bootstrapped, Not Broken: How Zerodha Hired Lean and Won Big
In a decade when most Indian startups were raising mega rounds, burning millions on ads, and hiring armies of engineers, Zerodha chose to do the opposite.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO): The Smarter Way Companies Are Scaling Hiring in 2025
Recruitment Process Outsourcing is the practice of handing over all or part of your hiring process to an external provider who operates as an extension of your team.
Subordinate vs. Partner: The Startup Hiring Mindset That Shapes Culture
A subordinate is “a person of lower rank or position” or “someone under the authority of another.”
Hiring College Grads to Build a Fintech Giant: Razorpay’s Early Engineering Bets
Looking back, Razorpay’s early hiring decisions followed an informal framework — one that aligns closely with how we design hiring processes for our clients.
What Is Orientation? And How Closing This Gap Speeds Up Tech Hiring with Intervue?
Since 2020, we’ve watched onboarding change almost overnight. Remote work has removed the casual desk visits and overheard conversations that helped new hires learn faster. Now, remote onboarding best practices aren’t optional — they’re survival tactics.
How Flipkart’s First 10 Engineers Built India’s E-commerce DNA From a Bangalore Apartment
In 2007, two software engineers from IIT Delhi quit their jobs at Amazon to build something that would change the course of Indian internet history.
What the TCS Layoffs Tell Us About the Future of Tech Hiring in India
Let’s address the elephant in the (virtual) room, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services firm, just announced it’s letting go of 12,000 employees in FY26. That’s 2% of its workforce, gone. And the tech hiring ecosystem is buzzing with questions: What does this
The Most Critical Tech Hire You’re Probably Not Interviewing For Yet
This emerging title may not yet appear in every job board or HRIS system, but forward-looking companies, especially those in fintech, SaaS, and digital services, are starting to bring them on board.
Why GCCs Are Betting on Deep Domain Talent—And What Hiring Leaders Need to Do Next
According to NASSCOM, India has 120,000+ AI/ML professionals and 185+ dedicated AI/ML CoEs within GCCs, clear proof that this is where domain expertise is being built at scale.
Why Indian IT Needs to Fix Its Hiring Culture, Not Hire More People
In 2022, a TeamLease study found that over 60% of fresher hiring in Indian IT companies were still waiting for onboarding at the end of the year. Sixty percent. That’s not a delay. That’s a system-wide false promise.