How Last9 saved 88 hours of interviewing bandwidth hiring senior DevOps talent
Last9 needed to scale its DevOps team fast, hiring for two hard-to-fill roles that demanded deep distributed-systems expertise and strong client-facing communication — with limited internal recruitment bandwidth. They handed the top of the funnel to HyreSnap and got back a small, pre-interviewed shortlist.
The challenge
Last9 was hiring Senior GoLang Backend Developers and Senior Site Reliability Engineers — roles needing genuine depth in large-scale distributed systems, plus the ability to articulate complex technical solutions to customers under pressure. Screening for that depth can really only be done by people who already have it, so it was consuming exactly the senior engineering time Last9 could least afford to spend.
What we did
HyreSnap ran the top of the funnel end to end through Smart Sourcing: an intake meeting to define the interview structure and technical competencies, targeted sourcing for GoLang and SRE specialists, then rigorous technical interviews conducted by HyreSnap’s own engineering experts. Every candidate arrived with a full interview report — scores, reasoning and transcript — so Last9 could judge on evidence rather than a recruiter’s summary. Only pre-interviewed candidates ever reached their team.
The results
Aggressive filtering before Last9 saw anyone meant very few candidates reached their team — and those who did, converted. In the GoLang pipeline a 72% pre-interview rejection rate left just 6 candidates; 83% of them were scheduled for technical interviews, 80% cleared Last9’s first round, and the process ended in a 100% offer-to-join ratio. The DevOps pipeline ran alongside it, with 52 candidates interviewed and 81% rejected before Last9 was involved.
- GoLang: 72% rejected pre-interview, leaving 6 candidates who moved forward
- 83% of those were scheduled for technical interviews
- 80% of GoLang (and 75% of DevOps) candidates cleared Last9’s first round
- 100% offer-to-join ratio for the Senior GoLang role
- DevOps: 52 candidates interviewed, 81% rejected before reaching Last9
- 88 hours of Last9’s interviewing panel bandwidth returned to the roadmap
“HyreSnap brought the expertise we needed at a critical time. Their ability to quickly understand our requirements, adapt their strategy, and provide high-quality candidates saved us invaluable time and effort.”
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