Currently, Lightning supports full time software engineering and product management roles in the experience range of 1-10 years and CTC > 15LPA. Lightning is not currently available for leadership positions such as CTOs & VPs and for non-tech roles such as sales, marketing, operations etc.
Your tech roles. Closed at Lightning speed.
You have put up with unsuccessful, slow and expensive recruitment agencies for a long time. Lightning brings top-notch relevance and speed at just 6.99% success fees.
Lightning is light years ahead
of conventional recruitment agencies
 | Recruitment Agencies | |
|---|---|---|
| Talent source | Cutshort's exclusive 3M+ talent pool | Generic job portals |
| Relevance | Hiring managers 🤍 it | Hiring managers reject most candidates |
| Start interviews in | 3 days | Unpredictable |
| Cost | Starts at 6.99% of CTC | 8.33% - 20% of CTC |
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Conventional agencies lack the candidate reach and technology to offer you these benefits
Unique and high quality talent pool
Unlike agencies that source talent from a generic databases like Naukri, Lightning uses Cutshort's 3M+ talent pool from product companies and startups.
Unprecedented relevance
Keywords are deceptive. Using LLMs and Gen-AI, our experts find you the candidates who actually have the skills your hiring manager wants.
Speed never seen before
While regular agencies are still trying to understand your role, Lightning magically lines up 10 top candidates you can interview directly.
Designed for the highest level of trust and transparency
We are building this for long term success. Yours and ours.
No masks policy
We never hide the name of your company while sourcing candidates. In fact, we sell your unique values to attract the candidates who really resonate with you.
Your long term interests first
We don't optimize for joinings. We only match candidates if we see a long term fit and never force or misguide them to join your company.
Teams. Built for life.
We never solicit candidates, that you hired, for roles at our other customers.
Quality often comes at a higher price. But thankfully, there are exceptions.
Lightning offers all this at just 6.99%
success fee
success feeLike Amazon, Lightning is able to hit the sweet spot of speed, quality and cost due to its focus, scale and massive technology advantage.
25000+ recruiters have used Cutshort to close more than 15000+ positions
We were trying to hire for our Data Scientist role for 4 months and interviewed 100 candidates, but in vain. With Lightning, we found someone great in less than 30 days.
Priyanka guthala
Sr. HR Bussiness Partner, Desynova
With agencies, we normally see a lot of back and forth. But Lightning was such a butter smooth experience - we could make our first offer within first 21 days! I'm pretty excited about how Lightning will transform our hiring in the days to come.
Kevin Fernandes
Business Development Manager, Vola Finance
Finding great tech talent is so hard; our team had made their our own interview bot! But with Cutshort, we got so many high quality candidates that we didn’t need extra steps and made 3 offers within first 5 weeks.
Hitesh Ganjoo
CEO, Iksha Lab
As a founder, hiring takes a lot of time since our talent bar is quite high. But within 30 days of starting on Lightning, we found 2 high quality engineers without spending a lot of time.
Naveen R
Founder, NocoDB
I really like the quality and speed. We made our first offer within 14 days itself!
Ekta S.
Senior Manager HR, Enparadigm
The service has been a great value addition for Wohlig since the candidates coming in our pipeline are pre-screened and are in accordance to our requirements. Hence, saving time and effort of an already small interviewing team. I am also very happy with the traction we are getting from Cutshort.
Gaurav Keny
VP Talent Acquisition, Wohlig
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, your roles should have salaries of at least 15LPA.
Unlike conventional agencies that charge 10% to 15% of CTC as success fees, Lightning’s success fees is just 6.99% for jobs given exclusively to Cutshort. For other jobs, the success fees is 6.33%. Due to such low success fees, we charge a small monthly retainer of INR 20k to partly cover our fixed costs.
Yes, we offer a 60 day replacement period.
Like Amazon’s ecommerce service, Lightning offers the best quality service at lowest price due to its sharper focus on Tech roles and massive cost advantage. As an example, Lightning has very low sourcing cost since it has access to Cutshort’s userbase of 20,00,000+ candidates who are already skill-mapped and AI analysed.
Unlike agencies, we aim for high relevance and joining ratio. To do this, our team spends considerable time and effort to understand your roles and find the best fitting candidates. The nominal monthly retainer helps us partly cover some of our fixed costs. For this retainer, you also get powerful Cutshort boosters such as Employer Branding & Candidate Feedback Report which are critical for any company to hire great tech talent today.
Conventional agencies search largely on keywords. Quality and relevance is judged by recruiters who themselves are not engineers. Lightning uses Large Language Models used by the likes of ChatGPT to search candidates on the higher level requirement mentioned by the hiring manager. For e.g. “a frontend developer with experience on performance optimisation”. It also uses test scores of the candidates in our specially created assessment tests on 30+ languages and frameworks. As a result, we have seen many companies selecting up to 80% to 100% of the candidates we share for their interview rounds.
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