Top Service Engineers who interview engineers

Anyone can look like a staff engineer for 45 minutes.

we run the technical interview before your team ever sees a name.

  • AI platform & AI product engineers
  • Seed to Series B
  • One name at a time, with a written assessment

With AI, anyone can write the perfect CV, sound confident about systems they never built, and pass a recruiter screen. The screen still runs — it just stopped screening.

This is the pipeline most agencies still run. Three of its five stages no longer screen anything, and the work they stopped doing did not disappear. It moved.

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Figure 1 — The agency pipeline2026
01 POST THE JOB 02 MATCH CV KEYWORDS 03 RECRUITER SCREEN 04 SEND TO ENGINEERING 05 COLLECT THE FEE NO LONGER SCREENS YOUR ENGINEERS
The pipeline most agencies still run. Struck: the three stages that no longer screen anything. The screening they skip does not vanish; the dashed route is where it lands, and nobody puts it on the invoice.
AI platform & AI product engineers Seed – Series B
Top Service 02 · The gap

The screening did not stop being necessary. It stopped being done by the people you are paying to do it. See Figure 1.

Your engineers became the screen.

The screen that stopped screening See Figure 1
Top Service 03 · How we work

We are engineers, so we built our own tools — and we speak the candidate's language. You meet them only at the last stop.

Figure 2 — The protocolFour stops

  1. Source

    Staff engineer

    Our own tooling, not keyword search. It finds people who build with and for AI even when their profile says nothing about it — including the ones too busy shipping to update it.

  2. Screen

    Staff engineer

    Engineer to engineer, 20 minutes. Terms, expectations, and a first read: does the way they describe the work sound like someone who did it?

  3. Technical interview

    Staff engineer

    90 minutes on their real systems. By how a person explains a decision, an engineer can tell whether they made it — or watched someone make it at the next desk.

  4. Your team

    You

    One name, with a written assessment. The first minute your team spends on this search.

Three stops before your team spends a minute. The fourth marker is open because it is the only one you are in.
Same engineer, start to finish Four stops
Top Service 04 · Who runs the interview
Figure 3 — Our own CV, annotatedThree questions

Implemented fully autonomous PR review across the org: 1,000+ PRs a day,1 95% bug detection rate.2 90% of the SDLC automated.3

Read the way we read yours.

The authors

  • A. TerneroForward Deployed Engineer · Vercel
  • G. LevitskyiAI Solution Architect · Dedicated
  • M. HolovenkoStaff AI Product Engineer · Behavox

The first two wrote the questions beside this figure. The third wrote the CV they are asking about. One of them will be on your call.

You can tell an engineer by the question they ask. Every note on this page was written by the person who will be on the call.

1

Walk me through the arithmetic. How many engineers in the org, PRs per engineer per day — and what share of the 1,000 was agent-driven rather than human-authored?

A. Ternero · Forward Deployed Engineer · Vercel
2

95% of what? To compute recall you need the bugs you missed. How did you establish ground truth for the bugs the system didn't catch?

G. Levitskyi · AI Solution Architect · Dedicated
3

List the SDLC stages as you defined them and which ones were automated. Is 90% measured by stage count, by engineer-hours removed, or by something else?

A. Ternero · Forward Deployed Engineer · Vercel
No recruiters on the call Three questions, by name
Top Service 05 · For candidates

You always know where you stand.

Every stage is on the platform: who is reviewing you and what happens next. Written feedback within two hours of the technical interview. If the client picks someone else and we know you're strong, you move to the next matching role — without repeating a single step.

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Figure 4 — Candidate statusSpecimen · Fri 14:52
First message from usTue
Intro callterms, expectations · 20 minWed 11:00
Profile on the platformCV and expectations entered by usWed 12:30
Technical interviewStaff engineer · named on the platformFri 14:00
Written feedbackwithin 2 hoursby 16:00
Client reviewstatus visible to you—
Offer — or next matching roleno new interview—
Done
Running now
Ahead
An illustration of the protocol, not a real account. The vertical rule is elapsed time.
No silence · no disappearing recruiter No silence · no disappearing recruiter
Top Service 06 · What it costs

One fee, when your hire starts. Nothing before, nothing on retainer, nothing for exclusivity.

Table I — Terms
1Fee, per hirePaid on start date
14Days to hireIntake to signed offer, on average
3–5Candidates per shortlistEach with a written assessment
90Days, free replacementWe run the search again

We turn down searches we don't think we can win. You'll know at the intake call whether your profile exists at your compensation — before either of us spends two weeks.

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One fee, on the start date No retainer · no exclusivity
Top Service 07 · Request talent

Tell us what you're building.

A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. You'll leave knowing whether this profile exists in the market at your compensation — even if you don't work with us.

Intake sheetReply within 24h
Everything else, on the call

© 2026 Top Service · a trade name of FOP Holovenko Maksym Leonidovych · Cherkasy, Ukraine team@top-service.ai