120 engineers in 6 months for a new Pune capability centre

The client had committed to its board that a 120-person Pune engineering centre would be operational within two quarters. They had no local employer brand, no India TA team, and a hiring bar calibrated to their US organisation.

Early attempts with three generalist agencies had produced high volumes of poorly matched profiles, burning hiring-manager hours and slowing everything down.

We deployed an embedded RPO pod: two sourcers, three technical recruiters and a delivery lead working under the client's brand, backed by our technology talent network.

A calibration sprint in week one aligned our screeners to the client's bar using their actual interview rubrics. We rebuilt the funnel around structured pre-assessments so hiring managers only met candidates with a 70%+ predicted pass rate.

A weekly analytics review tracked funnel conversion, source performance and offer-decline reasons, letting us fix drop-off points in near real time.