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Today marks Poulamee Chattopadhyay’s first day as a DoNut. From the city of joy - Kolkata, she is a true bong (literally). She will help our sales squad crack more deals.

Her childhood aspiration was to become a designer or a writer. Like everyone else here at DoSelect she is inspired by her Mom. Poulamee is a bookworm, enjoys shopping religiously and loves sitcoms. Phone, chocolates, family and friends are few things she can’t live without.

Eranna joins DoSelect as a Market Research Analyst to help generate some of the hottest leads. WooHoo!!

He comes from a town called Yemmiganur, Kurnool, AP and wanted to be part of India 11 cricket team. He loves fishing and playing cricket as they need physical actions and activities which excites him. Hmmm.

He idolizes Jaggi Vasudev, a sadhguru, yogi and a mystic who teaches yoga and cannot live without his Family & Friends and needs a good dose of Youtube and Facebook to keep him occupied.

Ashwin Bhatia joins DoSelect as an Enterprise Account Success Manager to help the Sales team. High-five!

He calls himself a Bangalorean now but is also a Mumbaikar by heart. As a child he dreamt of becoming a Musician/Singer of a very successful rock Band. Ashwin finds his inspiration in George Carlin - although a comedian, speaks very logical and tells you to stay genuine and honest.

He loves playing the guitar and singing to its tune which he thinks, takes him out of the ordinary and into a parallel universe in which he is Invincible. Bravo! He cannot survive without food, family and music (And you thought no one could, without a smartphone).

We asked him to give us a special message and here it is: “Life is a lesson, you’ll learn it when you’re through”

To help organizations quantify their technical talent, HR-Tech startup DoSelect, has received its seed round of funding from 3one4 Capital, Aarin Capital, Mumbai Angels led by Mohit Saxena (Co-Founder, InMobi), Singapore Angel Network along with a cohort of individual investors. The amount remains undisclosed.

DoSelect’s SaaS product suite is enabling HR and Engineering teams measure technical prowess by exposing engineers to real life application scenarios which require them to solve problems for the “code, test, debug, deploy” lifecycle. DoSelect’s suite is geared for talent acquisition, learning and workforce planning teams. With it’s powerful assessment engine, they are enabling tests on a diverse set of programming languages, frameworks and technologies which makes it easier to evaluate skills of any developer.

Speaking on the development, Pranav Pai on behalf of Mohandas Pai’s 3one4 Capital said, “DoSelect has built a technical assessment platform that helps companies make the best hiring decisions based on real skills and experience. The key components involve ensuring that requirements are structured clearly, that over 50 of the latest frameworks and environments are supported out of the box, and that the candidates are tested with technically-relevant exercises that replicate real-world situations for the open positions. No more multiple-choice questions and tired algorithms on a whiteboard! Candidates will also have better resources to prepare for these technical interviews by utilizing this platform before the interviews.

The team has a deep understanding of the needs on both sides of the technical interview and is using their domain expertise to deliver clear long-term benefits to all the stakeholders by removing the many asymmetries and manual inefficiencies that exist. When replicated at scale, this unleashes a tremendous improvement to the human resource dimension of the tech ecosystem. We are immensely excited to be working with DoSelect in solving this core need.”

DoSelect is a 12 member team with clients of the order of Amazon India, InMobi, Tata communications and Atom Technologies. The funds would be deployed to scale current traction areas through targeted marketing and sales funnels along with product enhancements that move the needle for HR teams worldwide, vis-a-vis measurement of technical acumen in their respective organizations.

Commenting on the development, Rohit Tirkey, Co-Founder, DoSelect stated, “We are trying to shift the current technical measurement landscape. 3one4 Capital with its poignant HR insights and a rigorous product + tech. world view brings much value to our product road-map. The added belief of ecosystem experts like Mohit Saxena and Mumbai Angels validates our track.”

The founding team is comprised of Iliyas Shirol, Sanket Saurav, and Rohit Tirkey. While Iliyas is a former InMobi engineer, Sanket and Rohit have completed their Bachelors In Technology from NIT Jamshedpur.

Additionally, Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, a Mumbai Angel investor, had this to say regarding DoSelect, “We're very excited about investing in DoSelect.  Hiring great coders is the key to every company's success in this day and age, where technology is becoming an organisation's competitive advantage. DoSelect's cutting edge platform is aiding HR teams understand in granular detail, why they should or should not, hire a particular engineer.”

Vardhaman is now a DoNut! - DS Blog

Vardhaman aka Vady is our new DoNut. He is here to join the infrastructure team and will help in maintaining the stability and to give our users, a seamless experience on DoSelect.

A computer science engineer by background who also carries passion for travelling and exploring geographies. He kills his time playing PC games and put the strategies back to infrastructure team. Apart from this he also has a kick for Liverpool FC.