Talent by Blind Review: How Blind Helps Top Public Tech Companies Find the Best Candidates
Before working with Talent by Blind, Alan Karamehmedovic actively used the professional community Blind to understand what candidates were saying about The Trade Desk.
As the company’s director of talent acquisition, it was important for him to see how candidates considered the pros and cons of working at the company.
Because he was already familiar with Blind, he started using Talent by Blind to build the team. Alan was soon impressed by the candidates he received from the recruiting service.
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When Alan first partnered with Jake Jones, a senior recruiting manager at Talent by Blind, he made sure they aligned on the ethos of what The Trade Desk was looking for in its engineers.
The Trade Desk takes pride in how collaborative teams work with one another.
One thing that separates a great engineer from a good engineer is somebody who has worked with some scale, understands the complexity of how different systems interact with each other, and how they fit within the larger ecosystem of the company as a team member.
Alan stressed the importance of collaboration. “Those are the types of engineers we want,” he explained. “They don’t necessarily have to come from Google, Snap, and some of these other big companies; they can work for a seed startup, but they need to work well with others and understand algorithms and data structures pretty well.”
Alan found a great partner in Jake. Jake knew that Alan was not just looking for engineers from big tech companies like Apple, Meta or Google. Instead, he focused on identifying and sharing candidates aligned with The Trade Desk’s ethos. He focused on engineers who had made a significant impact at their current and previous companies.
Jake found star programmers easily because of Talent by Blind’s deep pool of technical talent. For instance, he quickly connected with star programmers with five years or more experience as a software engineer, including programming in Java and Android, plus managing front-end applications with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
We get the biggest benefit from Talent by Blind through the sourcing help. Jake gets the candidate excited, and then, we get them over the line.
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Alan was impressed by Talent by Blind’s candidates. Talent by Blind specializes in placing experienced professionals in senior, staff and director-level technical roles.
“We would see two, three, four or five candidates from other agencies over a month, whereas I get a lot more from Jake, pretty much on a daily basis.”
Talent By Blind was a perfect partner for The Trade Desk. In addition to the consistency and strength of the candidates, Talent by Blind also provided insights that Alan and his team could use when recruiting.
With Talent by Blind, you know where the candidates are interviewing. If they have interviews at Google or Meta, they may not be as excited to get back to us at first, but when they do, it gives us the opportunity to prepare and use our pitch against those companies. We are able to share with them how they will be able to partake in impactful work at The Trade Desk compared to other firms.
Jake would also help candidates get more excited about The Trade Desk. He would take the time to explain to candidates who are on the fence or have other offers that The Trade Desk has a track record of strong financial performance and worked in an industry where development and professional growth could be made.
For example, The Trade Desk has generous employee benefits and stock purchase programs that rival top tech companies. The strong rewards are possible because of the company’s business success.
“From the first quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of 2022, our free cash flow has grown by almost 100%. Our EBITDA has grown by 75%, and we have zero debt. The company has grown year over year by 40% in a pandemic during the same period,” Alan notes.
Because of Talent by Blind, The Trade Desk hired a senior front-end engineer from Snap and a senior engineer with more than 12 years of experience, including at YouTube, within a month of being presented.
About The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk, a self-service and cloud-based platform, is a technology company that empowers buyers of advertising. Via The Trade Desk, ad buyers can create, manage, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across ad formats and devices. Integrations with major data, inventory, and publisher partners ensure maximum reach and decisioning capabilities, and enterprise APIs enable custom development on top of the platform. The Trade Desk, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Ventura, California, went public in 2016 and has grown significantly since then, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Work with Talent by Blind
Software engineers and technical professionals trust Talent by Blind to help land jobs at some of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies.
Talent by Blind pairs candidates with recruiters specializing in senior, staff and director-level technical roles. Unlike other agency recruiters, Talent by Blind recruiters doesn’t have a high-pressure sales and commission structure. Instead, they focus on connecting top companies with the most talented candidates.
Contact Talent by Blind to learn how to connect with some of the most talented engineering job-seekers, or join Talent by Blind as a candidate to start earning multiple job offers from top companies.