Pratiksha's Profound AI Rep
Pratiksha's view on the recruiter's role shows how she thinks beyond simply filling a position.
Pratiksha Baruah
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Solving Constrained Hiring Searches
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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Screening for Technical Depth
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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Pratiksha Baruah
About Me
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.
Pratiksha Baruah
Filling a position is not the whole job; we also represent the company's values and culture to every candidate.”
Pratiksha Baruah
On the recruiter's role