Hiring shouldn't be
a search.
It should be a match.
We're a small team in Bengaluru building the career platform we wished existed when we were last on either side of the table — applying for our 88th role, or screening our 503rd CV.
Two people, on opposite sides of the same broken system.
In late 2022, two of us were stuck. One was a senior engineer 4 months into a job search, applying to 60 roles a week and hearing back from three. The other was running talent at a 200-person company, drowning in a queue of CVs that grew faster than anyone could read them.
We'd both used the same five job boards. Both written the same kind of frustrated tweet. Both convinced the system was broken in a way nobody was actually fixing. Then we did the math.
23 million applications sent every day, globally. Most never read. 38 days average time to fill a role. 68% of recruiter time spent on screening, not on conversations.
That was the moment. The matching problem is solvable. With modern AI, you can read a CV and a job description and produce a real, weighted fit score across forty dimensions in under a second. That changes everything — for both sides.
We started 33careers a few months later. Today, the candidates and the hiring teams using the platform tell us the same thing: "It feels like the hiring process is finally working for me, not against me." That's the only metric that matters.
The product won't ship until both sides — the candidate and the recruiter — write us the same email: this saved me time, and got me to a better outcome.
Small team. Big conviction.
We're a focused team across engineering, design, ML, and operations — based out of Bengaluru with collaborators across India and Southeast Asia. We hire for depth over headcount and ship in weeks, not quarters.
Five convictions that shape every shipping decision.
- 01
Signal beats noise.
The world doesn't need more applications. It needs better matches. Show fewer, better options to both sides.
- 02
Fairness is a default, not a feature.
Rank by skill, intent, and outcome — never by name, photo, or pedigree. Make blindspots visible by design.
- 03
Both sides are on the same team.
Job seekers and hiring teams aren't adversaries. The product is built so when one wins, both do.
- 04
AI without a black box.
Every score is explainable. Every signal is named. If we can't justify a ranking, we don't ship it.
- 05
Speed is respect.
Reply within hours, not weeks. Fast hiring is humane hiring. Slow loops kill candidate trust and team momentum.
Two years in.
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