The French Sourcer

A recruitment engineering firm

The French Sourcer is a recruitment engineering firm founded in Paris. Our foundation is a system built to understand how product engineering, data and infrastructure teams actually work: their standards, their culture, what good looks like at each level. That knowledge is documented and structured, drawn from experience across startups, large corporates and consulting firms, in France and internationally. It stays with the firm across every mission and every recruiter who works within it.

This system lets us run in-depth interviews that go beyond the CV, structured to surface precisely what a candidate does day to day and reveal the substance behind their title. Our goal is to find the right people for the mission, and to explain exactly why, every time.

Every search follows the same engineered process. We scope requirements rigorously upfront, define milestones at every stage, and set evaluation criteria in advance that stay constant throughout. Each mission is tracked through a dedicated dashboard, where you can follow sourcing progress, every candidate's scorecard and key indicators such as time to hire, offer acceptance rate and six-month retention rate in real time. This is what makes results repeatable across every recruiter and every mission.

AI supports execution at every stage of a search. We use different tools for sourcing, for matching and for structuring interview reports, each selected for the task rather than one tool used for everything. Judgment stays human throughout. The recruiter directs the AI at every step, and every final evaluation rests on a structured technical interview conducted by a person.