Tool · Hiring platform

Cutshort: hire tech talent in India

Cutshort · cutshort.io Freemium Beginner India

An Indian hiring platform focused on technology roles, which describes itself as India's top platform for tech talent and is used by startups to find engineers.

  • Use it alongside Wellfound for Indian engineering hires.
  • Write the brief and salary band clearly before posting.
  • Follow up quickly: good engineers have several conversations open.
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The question it answers

  1. How do I hire a developer without a warm network or startup connections?

Read with it

  1. Battle-tested YC advice on landing your critical first engineering hire, from founders who've done it at scale. It reframes... YC Startup Library Article · Essay How to hire your first engineer (YC Startup Library) Y Combinator (Greg Brockman, Harj Taggar)
  2. This lays out the one fact most first-time founders get wrong: under Indian copyright law your freelancer owns the code they... iPleaders (blog.ipleaders.in) Article · ~20 min read Freelancer Agreement in India: IP, Ownership and the Clauses That Actually Bind iPleaders
  3. This is the other half of your answer: what to do once the thing works. It walks a non-technical founder through when and how... TechCrunch Article How to hire your first engineer: A guide for nontechnical founders TechCrunch
  4. Finding a great engineer is only half the battle when everyone is competing for them, and this piece is about the other half:... Y Combinator Startup Library Article · Medium read Convincing engineers to join your team Y Combinator
  5. This is the founding text on interviewing programmers, written by someone who actually ran a software company. It argues you... Joel on Software Essay · Long read The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) Joel Spolsky
  6. The companion conversation, focused on how Zerodha actually built its engineering team in the Indian market, from first hires... Software Misadventures Podcast · 1 hr 15 min Kailash Nadh on Building the Tech Team at Zerodha Software Misadventures
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