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Pratiksha's stories span constrained technical hiring and managing multiple mandates at once.
Pratiksha runs end-to-end technical hiring at PhonePe, closing constrained roles by adjusting search criteria and pushing back on stakeholders.
Pratiksha Baruah
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Pratiksha reworks a hiring search when the original requirements do not match what the market can deliver, rather than continuing to push against a wall. On a senior backend mandate with a strict diversity and experience bar, she brought data on the thin local pool back to the stakeholder and got the location requirement opened up. Across her three concurrent business units, she applies the same instinct: when a search stalls, she checks with the hiring manager and adjusts her sourcing criteria instead of repeating the same search. The mechanism is consistent: surface the blocker with evidence, then negotiate the constraint rather than accepting a stalled pipeline.
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Pratiksha evaluates candidates on whether they can explain what they actually built, not just whether their resume lists the right keywords. She asks candidates to walk through their projects: the tech stack used, the business impact, and whether they led the work or simply participated in it. She applies this consistently across backend and product solution engineering roles at PhonePe. When a candidate fumbles on the specifics of their own project, she treats it as a clear signal to screen them out rather than pass them forward on the strength of their resume alone.
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Career Stories
Closing a Constrained Senior Backend Mandate at PhonePe
At PhonePe as Talent Acquisition
2024
Managing Three Business Units of Hiring Simultaneously
