Pratiksha Baruah is a Talent Acquisition professional who has spent over two years running end-to-end technical hiring at PhonePe, covering roles from early career through senior levels.
She currently owns hiring across PhonePe's Core Payments, Symphony, and Merchant business units, managing multiple mandates at once and setting priorities based on urgency and stakeholder timelines.
On a senior backend hiring mandate with a strict diversity requirement, she pushed back on a location restriction that was choking the talent pool, then closed the role with candidates sourced from Hyderabad and Pune.
She screens for genuine technical depth rather than keyword matches, asking candidates to walk through their projects and business impact, and has built a structured approach to Boolean search across junior and senior technical roles.
