Campus Hiring · TA Head
10,000 applicants, 26 colleges, one five-day window
Think41
How Think41 held ten thousand campus candidates to the same bar across 26 colleges, in a single five-day intake window, without flying a panel anywhere.
- candidates interviewed
- 10,000+candidates interviewed
- colleges, one drive
- 26colleges, one drive
- drive to shortlist
- 5 daysdrive to shortlist
- concurrent interviews
- 1,143concurrent interviews
Think41's best campus talent isn't concentrated in one city — it's spread across 26 colleges nationwide, and no TA team can physically be everywhere at once. Every drive also runs inside a single, tight intake window, so whatever process got used had to work at the full spread of campuses from day one, not roll out college by college. And at fresher volume, where impersonation and answer-sharing are a real risk, the process also had to be one the firm could stand behind.
Recruit41 ran the same live, proctored interview at whatever concurrency each campus needed on drive day, catching integrity issues before a scorecard was ever produced. Because the role rewards strong fundamentals over memorized answers, the interview leaned on hands-on work, live debugging, and questions that probed how a candidate approached and broke a problem down, not just whether they landed on the right answer.
“We didn't just need to screen faster. We needed every one of ten thousand candidates held to the same bar — something no panel of humans could promise us.”