For Engineering Teams · CTOs · VPs of Engineering · Engineering Managers

Your best engineers
should be building.
Not interviewing.

Every hour your senior engineer spends screening is an hour not shipping. Vera conducts the first two rounds — deep, role-specific technical interviews — so your team only meets candidates worth their time. Candidates interview on their own time. You get the evaluation the same day.

Built for engineering teams hiring Frontend, Backend, Full Stack, DevOps, Data Engineering and Mobile engineers

Why engineering hiring takes forever and costs a fortune

1
Recruiter screens CVs

Can't tell React expert from React beginner. Passes everyone who mentions the right keywords.

40 candidates forwarded to engineering team
2
Senior engineer does first-round screens

40 candidates × 2.5 hrs each = 100 hours of senior engineer time. At $120–150/hr = $12,000–$15,000 in salary cost.

8–10 worth advancing. 30+ wasted interviews.
3
Scheduling delays

Senior engineer is busy building. Candidates are interviewing elsewhere. 2–3 weeks lost just coordinating calendars.

3–4 best candidates accept other offers while waiting.
4
Start over

Role still open. Team still short. Pressure mounts.

6–8 weeks gone. Back to step 1.
Vera breaks this cycle.

Candidates interview 24/7 on their schedule. Your engineers review evaluations — not candidates.

This is what your engineering team receives
— not a CV, not a gut feeling

A real Vera evaluation for a Senior Full Stack Engineer role

app.vera.ai / evaluations
Alex Chen
Senior Full Stack Engineer  ·  Remote  ·  8 yrs exp
🟢 Strong Hire Confidence 88%
✓ Passed technical evaluation. Ready for Hiring Manager Interview.

Strong full-stack depth with proven ownership of production systems at scale. Clear communicator with real architectural decision-making experience.

Work Auth
✅ Confirmed
Location
✅ Remote confirmed
Salary
✅ Within range
Available
✅ 2 weeks notice
Vera's Evaluation
  • Full Stack Technical DepthStrong
  • System Design ThinkingExcellent
  • Ownership & InitiativeStrong
  • CommunicationHigh
  • EligibilityPass
Interview History
Screening 82/100 Proceed
Resume Screen 87/100 Pass
What Vera Found
🆕 Strength Signals
  • Led migration of monolith to microservices for 2M+ user platform
  • Owns React frontend and Node.js backend — not siloed
  • Reduced API response time 40% through Redis caching strategy
  • Built CI/CD pipeline from scratch — GitHub Actions to AWS ECS
⚠ Concern

System design ownership at large scale not fully confirmed — described distributed system work as collaborative. Probe whether they led architecture decisions independently or executed someone else's design.

💡 Suggested question for hiring manager round:

"Ask Alex to walk through a specific architectural decision they made independently — what the tradeoffs were, what they chose, and what they would do differently now. Listen for whether they own the thinking or defer to team consensus."

What engineering screening actually costs you

💲 Cost per engineering hiring cycle — Senior Engineer role
Senior engineer fully loaded cost $120–150/hr
Time per first-round screen (prep + interview + notes) 2.5 hours
Candidates screened per role 10–15
Total senior engineer time 25–37.5 hours
Total salary cost $3,000–$5,625 per role
Features not shipped that week unquantifiable
⚠  That's before accounting for the candidates you lost while scheduling. Every week a role stays open, your team runs short-handed.
Vera screens all 15 candidates. Your engineer reviews the top 3 evaluations. Total engineer time: under 2 hours. Saving: ~$4,800 per role.

Role-specific depth. Not generic coding questions.

Vera builds every interview from your job requirements — not a template.

🌐
Frontend (React, Vue)

Component architecture  ·  State management  ·  Performance optimization  ·  Accessibility  ·  Testing strategies  ·  Build tooling

Backend (Node, Python, Java)

API design  ·  Database optimization  ·  Caching strategies  ·  Authentication patterns  ·  Error handling  ·  Scalability

🔁
Full Stack

Frontend–backend integration  ·  API contracts  ·  Shared state management  ·  Deployment pipelines  ·  System ownership end-to-end

DevOps / Cloud

CI/CD pipeline design  ·  Container orchestration  ·  Infrastructure as code  ·  Monitoring and alerting  ·  Cloud cost optimization

📊
Data Engineering

Pipeline architecture  ·  Data modeling  ·  Batch vs streaming  ·  Transformation logic  ·  Data quality and lineage

📱
Mobile (iOS, Android)

Architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean)  ·  Performance profiling  ·  Offline-first design  ·  App store deployment  ·  Native vs cross-platform tradeoffs

Tell Vera the stack. Vera builds the interview from your specific requirements — not from a generic engineering checklist.

Engineering teams who stopped losing time to bad screens

Fast-growing startup. CTO and senior engineers doing all first-round interviews. Multiple roles open simultaneously. Every interview was 2.5 hours of the team's most valuable time.

"I used to run every first-round interview myself. Now I only show up for the final — and by then I already know who I'm picking."

Series A startup scaling engineering team fast. 40 candidates reviewed. 8 weeks of scheduling back-and-forth. Founder doing all interviews alongside running the company.
8 weeks 1 day

"40 candidates. 8 weeks of back-and-forth. I made the same hire in a single day with Vera."

Recruitment agency placing Node/React engineers. No technical depth to evaluate candidates. Screening dozens, submitting many — still getting rejected by clients.

"Vera changed that. Now we only send candidates who can actually clear technical rounds."

Real problems. Real hires.

Every story below is from someone who was hiring the hard way — until they weren't.

25 hrs
senior engineer time
to screen 10 candidates per role
3–4
best candidates lost
to competing offers during scheduling delays
~$4,800
average time cost
senior engineer time per hiring cycle
Here's what happened after
Series A startup · scaling fast
40 candidates reviewed. 8 weeks of scheduling back-and-forth. Still no hire. Founder doing all interviews himself alongside running the company.

"40 candidates. 8 weeks of back-and-forth. I made the same hire in a single day with Vera."

Founder
Series A startup
~$4,800 saved
Founder time across 8 weeks of back-and-forth
25-person health tech · expanding
Founder + key people doing all interviews. Can't afford a wrong hire — product quality and patient outcomes depend on skill. Multiple roles open simultaneously.

"I used to run every first-round interview myself. Now I only show up for the final — and by then I already know who I'm picking."

Founder
Health tech · 25-person team
~$3,000/month saved
Founder + key people pulled from building
10-person startup · no recruiter
No HR. No recruiting team. CEO doing it all. 95% of candidates weren't close. Every failed interview was an hour the team couldn't afford to lose.

"I don't spend time figuring out who might be good anymore. I spend time closing the right candidates."

CEO
Early-stage startup · 10-person team
~$4,500 per hire
20 interviews at CEO hourly rate
$2B manufacturing · SAP FICO hire
100+ resumes reviewed manually. SAP Director + FICO Architect pulled from daily work. 12 interviews over 4 months. Best candidate lost to a scheduling delay.

"Vera shortlisted two candidates. I spoke to the first one the next day. He's now on the team."

SAP Director
$2B manufacturing company
~$5,500 saved
Director + Architect time over 4 months
SAP consulting firm · client sites
Recruiters couldn't evaluate SAP depth. Fake profiles slipping through. SAP architects dragged into interviews they hated — most ending in no hire.

"Vera flagged a candidate I wouldn't have looked twice at. I got on the call and thought — this is exactly who I need. Offer made the same day."

Head of Talent
SAP consulting practice
~$15,750 saved
SAP Architect time on failed interviews
Recruitment agency · engineering roles
No technical depth to evaluate Node/React candidates. Screening dozens, submitting many — still getting rejected by clients. $26K–$44K fee at risk every placement.

"Vera changed that. Now we only send candidates who can actually clear technical rounds."

Recruitment Consultant
Engineering roles
$26K–$44K protected
Fee at risk on every rejected placement

From resume pile to shortlist
— without touching your engineers

1
You define the technical bar

Stack, depth, what strong looks like for this role. Takes 10 minutes. Vera builds the interview from your criteria — not a generic template.

2
Vera interviews every candidate on their schedule

24/7 — evenings, weekends, whenever they're available. No scheduling. No waiting. Deep technical questions, real follow-ups, probing on every vague answer.

3
Vera flags depth vs buzzwords

"I worked with React" gets followed up with "Walk me through your state management approach on a production app." Real depth confirmed or gap surfaced — every time.

4
Your engineers see only who's worth their time

Structured technical evaluation, full transcript, suggested questions for the final round. Ready minutes after the interview ends.

Pay per role. Not per month.

No subscriptions. No lock-in. Pay per role.

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Your engineers should be shipping.
Not screening.

Book a 20-minute demo. We'll run a live Vera technical interview on one of your open engineering roles. You'll see the evaluation before the call ends — and understand exactly what your senior engineers currently spend hours finding out.

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