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Hire developers in a room, not on a resume

Invite-only tech recruiting events put up to 100 pre-vetted engineers in one room — local, vetted, and there to meet you face to face. Brand your team, run rapid interviews, and leave with a shortlist in a single evening. In-person and virtual, across 175+ cities worldwide.

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Developers meeting tech companies at a HackerX event
Developers meet tech companies
Engineers and employers talking face to face at a HackerX hiring event
Face to face, not a phone screen
A packed HackerX recruiting event floor
Up to 100 engineers, one evening
Employers running rapid interviews with engineers at HackerX
Rapid interviews, real hires
// meet developers at events

Meet 100+ pre-vetted engineers tonight

Invite-only recruiting events with up to 100 curated developers in one room — no agencies, no job boards, no noise. Just real conversations with engineers ready to move.

12.6%
Hire rate vs. 2–3% from job boards
<$500
Avg. cost-per-hire vs. $4–5K via agencies
500+
Events run worldwide
175
Cities across 35 countries
// why in person

Hiring on a screen is broken. In a room, it isn’t.

Every painful part of technical hiring — the padded resumes, the no-shows, the endless scheduling — comes from hiring people you’ve never actually met. Put an engineer in front of you and the games stop. Here’s what changes when you hire at a HackerX event.

The old way At a HackerX event
×Resumes you can’t trust — inflated titles, AI-padded bullets, and skills that evaporate on day one.
✓You shake hands with the actual engineer and watch them talk through real work. No fiction survives a face-to-face.
×Phone-screening candidates three time zones away who will never relocate and can’t come in.
✓Everyone in the room is local and already showed up. Proximity is pre-solved — no relocation gamble.
×Ghosted replies, silent no-shows, and “still interviewing elsewhere.”
✓They’re standing in front of you, ready to talk. Nobody ghosts a handshake — no chasing inboxes.
×Weeks of back-and-forth scheduling just to meet a handful of maybes.
✓Roughly 100 vetted engineers in a single evening. A month of pipeline compressed into a few hours.
×Guessing at fit from a LinkedIn profile and a keyword-matched resume.
✓A speed-dating format of short, high-signal conversations. You leave with a shortlist, not a maybe pile.
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Recruiting that actually works

We’ve run over 500 events connecting the world’s best companies with top engineering talent.

01

Pre-vetted candidates only

Every developer attending has been reviewed by our team. No recruiters, no noise — only engineers actively open to new opportunities.

02

Brand yourself, not a job post

Tell your engineering story in person. Candidates understand your stack, culture, and team in a way no job description ever could.

03

Rapid-interview format

Speed networking gets you face time with dozens of engineers in one evening — more signal than weeks of inbox outreach.

04

Global reach, local feel

Events in 175+ cities across 35 countries. Whether you’re hiring locally or building a distributed team, we’ve got you covered.

05

Fraction of agency cost

Average cost-per-hire under $500. No hidden fees, no commission on salaries — just a flat sponsorship that pays for itself.

06

We handle the logistics

Venue, catering, promotion, candidate vetting — we run the event so your team can focus on making great hires.

Reach engineers who aren’t on the market — yet

The best engineers aren’t scrolling job boards. Our invite-only model handpicks attendees, vetted for skills and screened for genuine openness to new roles.

87%
of engineers say a face-to-face conversation improves their perception of a company
3×
more likely to accept an offer from a candidate you met at an event vs. cold outreach
20
companies max per event — you stand out, not get lost in a crowd of booths

Four ways to show up at events

Sponsor a booth, host, run your own private event, or reach the whole community by email — pick what fits how you hire.

// sponsor Sponsor a booth

Join a public HackerX event, meet up to 100 pre-vetted engineers, and make hires in a single evening.

Find an event → // host Host an event

Provide the venue and own the room. On average, hosts get the most face time — and make the most hires.

Host an event → // private Private event

Your own invite-only event, curated around your exact roles. Some teams make as many as 13 hires from one night.

Design your event → // email Sponsored emails

Put your open roles in front of 140K+ engineers straight to the inbox. From $995 per city / region.

Reach the inbox →

Sponsor an event in your city

In-person and virtual events across 175+ cities. Become the employer everyone wants to talk to.

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// on demand
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