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Tech Recruiting Software

Reach engineers who ignore generic outreach, shortlist a flood of applicants without reading every resume, and get one comparable verdict from every interviewer on your panel.

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100Hires jobs dashboard showing open engineering roles across the hiring pipeline

Hiring engineers breaks a generic ATS in three places at once.

Sourcing: strong developers get dozens of identical messages a week and answer none of them. Screening: one popular role pulls hundreds of applications, and a growing share are AI-generated or padded with skills the candidate has never actually used. The debrief: five engineers interview the same person and score them five different ways, so the loudest voice in the room wins.

100Hires is built for the software and IT teams that hit all three of these before they are big enough for a large enterprise ATS contract or a separate coding-assessment suite.

100Hires Add candidates menu showing the Chrome extension import option for sourcing developers

Reach engineers who never answer a generic message

Strong developers ignore mass InMail, and they can tell when an email came out of a mail-merge. Source candidates from LinkedIn with the 100Hires Chrome extension, bulk-import a LinkedIn Recruiter project, or add engineers you found on GitHub and Stack Overflow. SignalHire enrichment finds their personal and work email addresses plus a phone number, so your message lands in a real inbox instead of a dead profile. The AI Email Composer then drafts outreach from the candidate's actual background and the role you are filling, so the first line reads like you read their work.

  • Chrome extension sourcing from LinkedIn
  • Bulk import from a LinkedIn Recruiter project
  • SignalHire email and phone for GitHub and Stack Overflow profiles
  • AI Email Composer drafts from real candidate context
100Hires AI Score criteria with 0-100 scoring bands per criterion

Decide who clears the bar before you open a single resume

A single engineering opening can pull hundreds of applications in a week, and you cannot read them all in submission order. AI Score in 100Hires ranks every applicant against the criteria you set on the job, with a 0-100 score per criterion, so the strongest profiles rise to the top of the pipeline automatically. Knockout questions disqualify anyone who misses a hard requirement, such as work authorization, a core part of the stack, or a seniority floor, before a recruiter ever opens the profile. Duplicate applications from the same person merge on their own.

  • AI Score 0-100 per criterion on every application
  • Weighted criteria you define per job
  • Knockout questions auto-disqualify on hard requirements
  • Duplicate applicants merge automatically

Teams that lean on AI Score review a ranked shortlist instead of reading applications in the order they arrived. The AI does not make the call; it highlights the strongest profiles so your recruiter spends screening time on the ones that can actually pass a technical round.

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100Hires Evaluation Form scorecard attached to a candidate with structured rating questions

Stop the debrief where five engineers scored five different ways

When several engineers interview the same candidate, feedback drifts fast. One writes notes in Slack, another invents a rating scale, the engineering lead makes a gut call, and nobody can compare the rounds. Evaluation Forms in 100Hires put the same structured scorecard on the job for every interviewer, with a five-point thumbs scale and eight question types, so the debrief compares like for like. Set any question to private, visible to Admins only, when you want independent scores before the room anchors on the first opinion. The AI Copilot can compare a candidate's stack and experience against the job requirements on demand, reading the resume, notes, and application together.

  • Evaluation Forms attached per job
  • Five-point thumbs scale, eight question types
  • Per-question private visibility for blind scoring
  • AI Copilot checks stack against job requirements
100Hires job publishing screen with Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor and more job board toggles

Keep your best engineer from taking a faster offer

Good developers hold several offers at once, and a slow, silent process is how you lose them. Publish a role to Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Google Jobs and more in one click, then let stage automations keep things moving: the candidate gets a self-scheduling link the moment they pass the phone screen, and the hiring manager is notified every time a candidate advances, without a recruiter chasing them. A passive engineer who is not ready yet joins a Nurture campaign and a Talent Pool, so the next role starts with warm candidates instead of a cold search.

  • One-click multiposting to 11 job boards
  • Self-scheduling links on stage advance
  • Per-stage automations to candidate and hiring manager
  • Nurture campaigns and Talent Pools for passive devs

Run your next engineering role on one pipeline

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What to look for in tech recruiting software

Most buyer guides score tech recruiting software on the same handful of criteria: how widely it reaches candidates, whether it can screen a high volume of applicants without manual reading, whether several interviewers can leave comparable technical feedback, how it distributes a role, and whether the pricing is transparent enough to start without a sales call.

100Hires covers the applicant-tracking side of all of those: sourcing and enrichment, AI scoring, structured Evaluation Forms, multiposting, and a developer API on paid plans. It is honest about its edges too. 100Hires does not run live coding tests inside the product, so most teams pair it with a dedicated coding-assessment platform and keep every candidate in the 100Hires pipeline.

100Hires
From $49 per month
Typical ATS
Varies by vendor
Sourcing reach
Where you can find candidates
LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack Overflow via enrichment
Mostly inbound applications
High-volume screening
Ranking a flood of engineering applicants
AI Score 0-100 plus Knockout questions
Manual review or basic filters
Structured technical debrief
Comparable feedback across interviewers
Evaluation Forms, five-point scale, blind scoring per question
Free-text notes
AI assistance
Built into the candidate record
AI Copilot and AI Email Composer
Add-on or none
Job distribution
11 job boards in one click
Varies by plan
Developer API
Jobs, candidates, webhooks
REST API v2 on paid plans
Often plan-gated
Pricing
Transparent, self-serve, free trial
Often demo-gated
Best for
Software and IT teams hiring engineers
Generic roles

100Hires is not a technical-assessment platform. There is no built-in live-coding IDE, no anti-cheat proctoring, and no automated crawl of a candidate's GitHub contribution graph. For skills testing, run a dedicated coding-assessment tool alongside 100Hires and track every candidate in one pipeline. For sourcing, you find engineers on LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack Overflow yourself, and 100Hires handles the contact enrichment, outreach, scoring, and structured interviews from there.

Tech recruiting software FAQ
+ What is tech recruiting software?
Tech recruiting software is an applicant tracking system tuned for hiring software engineers and other technical roles, where sourcing is hard, applicant volume is high, and several technical interviewers need to agree. 100Hires is built for this use case: it sources and enriches developer contacts, ranks a flood of applicants with AI Score, runs structured Evaluation Forms across an interview panel, and distributes a role to 11 job boards in one click, so a small software or IT team can run a serious engineering pipeline without a heavyweight enterprise ATS contract.
+ Does 100Hires include built-in coding tests or technical assessments?
No. 100Hires is an applicant tracking system with AI sourcing, scoring, and structured interviews; it does not run live coding tests or anti-cheat proctoring inside the product. Most teams pair 100Hires with a dedicated coding-assessment platform for the skills test and keep every candidate, score, and interview record in the 100Hires pipeline. The AI Copilot can still compare a candidate's stated stack and experience against the job requirements, which helps flag the resume padding that wastes an interview slot.
+ How does 100Hires help source software developers?
100Hires gives you three sourcing paths. The Chrome extension pulls candidates from LinkedIn and bulk-imports a LinkedIn Recruiter project. For engineers you find on GitHub or Stack Overflow, SignalHire enrichment finds their personal and work email plus phone so you can reach them directly. The AI Email Composer then drafts outreach from the candidate's real background instead of a template, which matters because strong developers ignore generic mass messages.
+ How does AI scoring handle a high volume of engineering applicants?
AI Score in 100Hires runs automatically on every new application and scores it on a 0-100 scale against the weighted criteria you set on the job, such as relevant experience, seniority, and specific parts of the stack. Your recruiter reviews a ranked shortlist instead of reading hundreds of applications in submission order. Knockout questions disqualify candidates who miss a hard requirement before anyone opens the profile, which cuts down the AI-generated and unqualified noise a popular role attracts. AI Score is a ranking aid, not a hiring decision: it orders the queue so a human reviews the right profiles first.
+ Can several interviewers submit comparable technical feedback?
Yes. Evaluation Forms in 100Hires attach the same structured scorecard to a job for every interviewer, with a five-point thumbs scale and eight question types, so the debrief compares like for like instead of free-text notes versus a gut call. Any question can be set to private, visible to Admins only, so interviewers score independently before the room anchors on the first opinion. The AI Copilot can also summarize a candidate and compare their experience against the job requirements to ground the discussion.
+ Is 100Hires a good fit for a small software company hiring its first engineers?
Yes. 100Hires is built for software and IT teams in roughly the 15 to 230 employee range that are hiring their first or growing engineering team and are not ready to pay for or administer a large enterprise ATS. Pricing is transparent and self-serve, the free 14-day trial needs no credit card, and the out-of-the-box pipeline, AI Score, and Evaluation Forms let one recruiter or a founder run a competent technical hiring process without a dedicated ATS admin. See https://100hires.com/pricing for current plans.
+ Does 100Hires have an API our engineering team can use?
Yes. The full REST API v2 is included with paid 100Hires plans, with no enterprise tier required. It covers the hiring lifecycle: create and manage jobs, import candidates in bulk, move applications through stages, send messages, and fire webhooks on stage changes, so your engineering team can build internal dashboards or connect 100Hires to the rest of your stack. The OpenAPI spec is published at https://api.100hires.com/v2/openapi.json with no sales call required to read it.
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