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Generative AI for Core Product Evolution in Recruitment

Discover how a lean startup evolved its core product, using AI in hiring to reduce tech teams’ interview time by 70%, freeing up engineers for core development and innovation.

Krishnan Nair
CEO and Co-Founder at Geektrust
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April 22, 2025
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Generative AI for Core Product Evolution in Recruitment

Discover how a lean startup evolved its core product, using AI in hiring to reduce tech teams’ interview time by 70%, freeing up engineers for core development and innovation.

The expert: Krishnan Nair, CEO of Geektrust.

The organization: Geektrust, a mid-sized Indian tech hiring platform.

The problem: A scalability crisis in technical hiring. The rise of generative AI, particularly ChatGPT, signaled a fundamental shift in how hiring and assessments would evolve.

The solution: Geektrust reimagined its core product, pivoting from a traditional ML system for automating structured code assessments to an AI Technical Interviewer Agent that automates the most resource-intensive stage of hiring.  

Key decisions
  • Innovate with real and clear business needs
  • Build and iterate with design partners
  • Prioritize domain expertise over AI expertise
  • Prioritize customer needs over technical complexity and trending tech
  • Automate business-critical inefficiencies
Key results
  • 66% reduction in interview scheduling time
  • 70% decrease in tech teams' interview time
  • 90% cost savings on infrastructure and operations
  • Multiple fully paying and late-stage pilots under contracting discussions with billion-dollar enterprises
  • CSAT of 4.3/5

1. The Geektrust Story: A Case Study in AI-Driven Business Growth

How Geektrust evolved from a manual hiring platform to an AI-powered recruitment solution, driven by real-world hiring challenges.

2. The Problem: The Interview Gap

The hiring bottlenecks faced by both Geektrust and the industry, leading to the need for scalable AI-driven solutions.

3. The Solution: The AI Technical Interviewer Agent

The summary of outcomes and impact of Geektrust's AI Technical Interviewer Agent solution.

4. Product Evolution: A Closer Look

Geektrust's product evolution over the years, from manual assessments to ML-driven evaluations to generative AI-powered interviews.

5. Product Development: A Three-Phased Approach

The structured, phased approach Geektrust adopted to build and refine its AI interviewer, ensuring alignment with client needs.

6. Operational Challenges and Solutions

How Geektrust navigated critical challenges, from managing organizational transitions to overcoming market skepticism and adoption barriers.

7. Ongoing Enhancements and Future Plans

Geektrust's roadmap for expanding its AI-driven hiring platform, transitioning to a SaaS model, and entering global markets.

8. Key Insights from AI Adoption

Strategic takeaways for tech leaders on AI adoption, risk mitigation, and ensuring tangible business outcomes.

9. Conclusion

Final reflections on how Geektrust's AI adoption model serves as a blueprint for lean startups aiming for scalable, impact-driven AI integration.

“I gave the team full freedom to experiment with LLMs and generative AI — no pressure to deliver features fast, just the space to learn and explore. When you hire smart people, trust them. Give them time and resources, and they’ll figure it out.”

Krishnan Nair

Meet the Experts

Krishnan Nair

CEO and Co-Founder at Geektrust
A seasoned software developer with over a decade of project management experience, Krishnan combines technical expertise and strategic leadership to drive innovation at Geektrust. His pragmatic approach to generative AI, rooted in a developer's perspective, allows him to discern practical value from market hype. At a time when many enterprise leaders were either skeptical or struggling to implement AI effectively, Krishnan identified its potential and aligned it with business needs to deliver measurable outcomes.
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