[Funding alert] HR tech startup InterviewDesk raises funding

InterviewDesk, an on-demand technical interviewing platform, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding round from Sugumar Natarajan, Executive Director, Anil Foods.

Other angle investors including the former Amazon leader Lakshminarayanan Venkatajalam, Former Amazon Recruiting Leader Karthick Chandran, also participated in this round.

The startup plans to use the funds to grow its technical and business teams to improve the technology that powers the platform.

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The Chennai-based InterviewDesk was founded in 2018 by former senior recruiter at Amazon, Pichumani Durairaj, It is built to disrupt traditional recruitment methods and works on a unique concept of outsourced interviewing. It is an interview-as-a-service platform solving worldwide tech-hiring, helping companies build their engineering team faster.

The startup has seen 400% year-on-year growth in FY-2022. 

The startup's clients include companies like Byju's, Rupeek, Ally, Jupiter Money, Glossier, CoinSwitch Kuber and Jubilant FoodWorks.

“In today’s world, companies are looking for ways to scale up their hiring process for their never-ending resource need. InterviewDesk’s focus is to help companies hire quality talents faster with the balanced intervention of humans and tech,” said Pichumani Durairaj, founder and CEO, InterviewDesk.

“We are confident InterviewDesk will emerge as a great solution provider thereby impacting many candidates to land their dream jobs and for companies to find their missionaries”, said Sugumar Natarajan, Executive Director, Anil Foods.

“Ever-increasing expectations from job seekers and the dire need of companies to fill roles fast across functions require a radical change in the hiring process. I believe the team at InterviewDesk and their relentless pursuit for innovation bring in this change through their platform to help both job seekers and the companies.”, said Lakshminarayanan Venkatajalam.

"The war for tech talent for large-scale product organisations and emerging start-ups has pushed talent acquisition function to continuously innovate to optimize the talent attraction and the hiring process to onboard right talent without diluting the hiring bar.  This need has been proactively gauged by InterviewDesk team and they have started implementing customized solutions for their clients even before this Ops excellence in TA emerged as a business model," said Karthick Chandran. 

About InterviewDesk

InterviewDesk is world’s leading On Demand Interview Platform built to disrupt traditional hiring methods and works on a unique concept of outsourced interviewing.

Founded by an ex-Amazonian, InterviewDesk is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. With their curated approach, organizations can now save up to 50% of time and cost spent on hiring.

It helps companies to build their engineering team faster. InterviewDesk is redefining how tech-hiring happens across the globe. They have built an interview-as-a-service platform to solve this and have big logos under their customer portfolio. In short, we are primarily here to create exceptional interviewing experience for the job seekers, employers as well as the interviewers.