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1M+ user marketplace
Thousands of cities and 8 countries
Nearly 2M annual jobs
How TaskRabbit rapidly scaled
its lean engineering team into a
global tasking machine.
“I needed to build talent acquisition from the ground up. But being a non-equity company hiring in San Francisco, it was incredibly competitive — salaries were high, and quality wasn’t guaranteed.”
Zachary Dupra
Head of Global Talent Acquisition, TaskRabbit
The process
Braintrust worked closely with the TaskRabbit team.
Braintrust made the process easy. After an initial call, TaskRabbit received a slew of quality Talent recommendations in under 48 hours.
Braintrust filled jobs in 1/3 of the time, from 44 days to 14.
TaskRabbit surged, with 30% of its engineering team filled by Braintrust Talent based everywhere from Greece and Poland to Latvia.
Braintrust became TaskRabbit’s core hiring solution.
The ease of use, plus the quality and longevity of the Talent, led TaskRabbit to make Braintrust their sole contracting solution.
The obstacles
A heated market for specialized engineers.
TaskRabbit needed skilled talent with Ruby on Rails experience, but hiring rates were exploding.
Slow and costly talent acquisition methods.
Search firms were ramping up their rake, charging 25% placement fees on salaries that were already high.
Global goals, but few distributed workers.
Almost all of the company’s engineering team was based in its Bay Area office, limiting the company’s talent pool and reach.
“I needed to build talent acquisition from the ground up. But being a non-equity company hiring in San Francisco, it was incredibly competitive — salaries were high, and quality wasn’t guaranteed.”
Zachary Dupra
Head of Global Talent Acquisition, TaskRabbit
The obstacles
A heated market for specialized engineers.
TaskRabbit needed skilled talent with Ruby on Rails experience, but hiring rates were exploding.
Slow and costly talent acquisition methods.
Search firms were ramping up their rake, charging 25% placement fees on salaries that were already high.
Global goals, but few distributed workers.
Almost all of the company’s engineering team was based in its Bay Area office, limiting the company’s talent pool and reach.
The process
Braintrust worked closely with the TaskRabbit team.
Braintrust made the process easy. After an initial call, TaskRabbit received a slew of quality Talent recommendations in under 48 hours.
Braintrust filled jobs in 1/3 of the time, from 44 days to 14.
TaskRabbit surged, with 30% of its engineering team filled by Braintrust Talent based everywhere from Greece and Poland to Latvia.
Braintrust became TaskRabbit’s core hiring solution.
The ease of use, plus the quality and longevity of the Talent, led TaskRabbit to make Braintrust their sole contracting solution.
Bill Pairaktaridis
David Leong
Douglas Miller
Mykolas Kvieska
Piotr Brudny
Radu Popovici
Saurabh Lodha
Steve Lin
Tito Agudelo
Tushar Koul
With Braintrust, Zachary was able to build a third of his team in a third of the time — and for a fraction of the cost. What’s more, he was able to source affordable, specialized engineering talent from all around the world.
Talent hired
2
Ruby on Rails Engineers
3
Senior React Native Engineers
4
Full Stack Engineers
1
Elastic Consultant
“The quality of engineers, incredible flexibility, and ease of use is why we now don’t use any agencies or networks other than Braintrust to source our contractors. What I appreciate most is the longevity: There is a real tenure in the people we contract through Braintrust.”
Zachary Dupra
Head of Global Talent Acquisition, TaskRabbit
Talent hired
2
Ruby on Rails Engineers
3
Senior React Native Engineers
4
Full Stack Engineers
1
Elastic Consultant
With Braintrust, Zachary was able to build a third of his team in a third of the time — and for a fraction of the cost. What’s more, he was able to source affordable, specialized engineering talent from all around the world.
“The quality of engineers, incredible flexibility, and ease of use is why we now don’t use any agencies or networks other than Braintrust to source our contractors. What I appreciate most is the longevity: There is a real tenure in the people we contract through Braintrust.”
Zachary Dupra
Head of Global Talent Acquisition, TaskRabbit
1/3 of the time
Braintrust took 2 weeks to fill positions that took other firms months.
3 extra hires
Thanks to 30% cost savings, TaskRabbit was able to hire more Talent.
Other solutions: 7 hires
Braintrust: 10 hires
by removing agency fees
1/3 of the time
