Tell us the role. Meet vetted finalists in 72 working hours.
A Winkle recruiter finds the people, puts each one through a skills assessment and an AI interview, and hands you 3 to 5 finalists with the evidence on every one.
- No account needed
- Fee agreed with you on a call
- Free replacement within 30 days
Senior Backend Engineer · Paylane
Finalists readyMeet these 4.
Sourced, tested and interviewed for you
88Niles Davies
Assessment 88% · AI interview 86
84Lena Fischer
Assessment 84% · AI interview 88
81Sofia Marino
Assessment 81% · AI interview 79
77Daniel Kim
Assessment 76% · AI interview 81
How it works.
You do the first step and the last. Everything between is ours.
- 01You
Tell us the role
Five minutes, no account: what they will do, the pay, the must-haves.
- 02Winkle
A recruiter calls you
Within one working day, by phone or WhatsApp, to sharpen the brief with you.
- 03You
Agree the fee on a call
On that same call. The 72 working hours start once you've agreed.
- 04Winkle
We find and vet
Sourcing, a skills assessment built for the role, an AI interview, integrity checks, and a recruiter who reads every result.
- 05Winkle
You meet 3 to 5 finalists
On one private link, each with an evidence report. Interview, pass, or ask us a question.
- 06You
Hire
They accept your offer. If they leave in the first 30 days, we replace them free.
Every finalist arrives with the proof.
Skills assessments
A test built for the role from our library of 1,056 tests: coding, written and multiple-choice, marked against the level you asked for.
AI interviews
A spoken interview on the role, in the candidate's own words, transcribed and scored against your must-haves.
Integrity checks
Every sitting recorded, with AI-answer and similarity checks. A person reviews every flag before you see a name.
Evidence reports
Why them, each claim linked to its proof, and the one thing worth asking in your interview.
A recruiter on every decision
Software does the measuring. A person makes every call about a candidate, and nobody is turned down by a machine.
Senior Backend Engineer · Paylane
Finalist 1Niles Davies
Backend engineer · payments · 7 years
- Assessment
- 88%
- AI interview
- 86
- Integrity
- 93
- Coding test 88%, all 5 hidden tests passed
- Designed idempotent webhooks, explained the trade-offs aloud
- Integrity 93/100: two small flags, both reviewed and cleared
Ask themHas run Kafka in production only briefly. Ask how he would size consumers for a sale.
A sample finalist. The person and figures are invented.
What you stop doing.
- Writing the job ad
- Reading 300 CVs
- Chasing no-shows
- First-round calls
You agree the brief once. Then you meet the people worth meeting.
How pricing works.
Every role is different, so we agree the fee with you on a call before the search starts.
The fee
On a call
Your recruiter talks the role through with you and agrees the fee. Nothing is paid online, and we invoice what we agreed.
Finalists
72working hours
Vetted finalists within 72 working hours of agreeing the brief, each with an evidence report.
Covered
30 daysreplacement guarantee
If they leave or you let them go within 30 days of starting, we find you someone else at no charge.
Do I need a Winkle account?
No. Tell us the role and we email you a private link. The brief, the clock, your recruiter and your finalists all live on that link.
What counts as a working hour?
Hours from Monday to Friday, Lagos time. The 72 working hours start once your recruiter has agreed the brief and the fee with you. Weekends don't count.
Where do the candidates come from?
From people who applied to work with Winkle or to your role, and from our recruiters' own search. Everyone we put forward has agreed to be, and you see their contact details once you choose to interview them.
How are they vetted?
Each one takes a skills assessment built for your role and an AI interview, both recorded with integrity checks. A recruiter reads every result and every flag. Software measures; a person decides, and nobody is rejected by a machine.
What does it cost?
Your recruiter agrees the fee with you on a call, before the search starts. Nothing is paid online, and we invoice the fee we agreed.
What if none of the finalists is right?
Tell us why on the finalists page, per person or all at once. Your recruiter goes back out with that, at no extra cost.
What if my hire leaves early?
If they leave, or you let them go, within 30 days of their start date, we find you a replacement and charge no new fee.
Who sees our brief?
You, and the Winkle team working on it. Candidates hear about the role, the pay range and your company only once a recruiter is speaking to them about it.
Already have applicants?
We test them for you: a skills assessment built for the role, every answer read, and a ranked shortlist with the evidence in 48 hours. We agree the price with you on a call.
Tell us the role. We'll do the rest.
Five minutes now. Finalists within 72 working hours of agreeing the brief.