How much do recruitment agencies in Bengaluru charge, and what does the fee cover?

Most Bengaluru consultancies charge 8.33% of annual CTC, one month's salary, rising to 10 to 20% for specialist and leadership mandates. Hyring charges a flat 7%. It covers sourcing, AI first-round interviews, recruiter validation, portal access, offer support, and the replacement guarantee. Contract staffing, payroll, background verification, RPO, and employer of record are quoted separately.

Why do Bengaluru candidates decline offers so often?

Offer competition and commute. Strong engineers commonly hold two or three live offers and face a counteroffer from their current employer during a sixty to ninety day notice period. Separately, candidates frequently decline roles across the city at identical pay because the commute is unworkable. Hyring screens for both before submission.

Can Hyring help global companies hire in Bengaluru without an Indian entity?

Yes, through our employer of record service. We employ the team in Bengaluru, handle payroll, statutory compliance, and benefits, and you direct the work. The same AI screening applies, and engagements stay visible through the portal and Insight by Hyring.

How fast can Hyring close a position in Bengaluru?

Shortlists with completed AI interview recordings typically arrive in 48 to 72 hours. Closure depends on notice periods, which commonly run 60 to 90 days here, and on how fast your loop moves. Employers who go from shortlist to offer within two weeks close significantly more of their Bengaluru pipeline.

Do you recruit for startups as well as global capability centres?

Both, and the screening differs. GCC roles weight depth in a specific stack and process maturity; startup roles weight breadth, ownership, and comfort with ambiguity. We calibrate the AI interview to the role rather than running one test for everyone.

How do I review candidates and share feedback with my team?

Everything runs in your Hyring portal. Every candidate is uploaded with resume, AI interview recording, and calibrated scores, moving through clear stages your whole team can see. Feedback is captured on the candidate profile instead of email chains, and panel interviews are scheduled and held in Hyring Meet, our own video platform.

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Hyring recruits across Bengaluru at a flat 7% of CTC, in the deepest and most contested technology talent market in India. Candidates arrive with first-round AI interviews already completed, so your panel starts at round two.

Last updated on: June 27, 2026Read time: 9 mins

Written byAdithyan RKFact checked bySurya N

Flat fee on CTC, direct hire

48–72h

AI-screened shortlist

900K+

AI interviews conducted

60–90

Days typical notice period here

Hyring is an AI-native recruitment agency recruiting across Bengaluru at a flat 7% of CTC, covering product engineering, global capability centres, startups, and enterprise IT. Every candidate you review has already completed a first-round AI interview, with the recording and score waiting in your portal.

Bengaluru is the hardest market in India to hire in, and not because talent is scarce. It is the opposite problem. The city has more senior engineers than anywhere else in the country and more employers competing for them, which means the constraint is never sourcing, it is conversion. Strong candidates here routinely hold two or three live offers, expect counteroffers from their current employer, and serve sixty to ninety days of notice while the market keeps bidding. A shortlist that arrives in three weeks is a shortlist of people who already accepted something else.

Bengaluru Hiring Data

Bengaluru is India's largest technology employment market, with the country's deepest senior engineering bench and its highest salary levels and counteroffer rates.

Two structural facts about the market and two observations from our own screening activity, because the second pair is what actually changes how you plan a Bengaluru search.

India's largest IT export and technology employment hub

Depth is the advantage and the problem. Every role you open is a role three other companies are also open on.

Industry reporting, latest available

Indian city by startup and GCC concentration

Two very different employer types compete for the same engineers, which pushes packages up and tenure down.

Industry reporting, latest available

60–90

Days typical notice period

Longer than Chennai or Hyderabad at comparable levels. Plan backwards from the joining date, and expect a counteroffer attempt inside the notice window.

Hyring screening observation, 2026

Highest

Salary levels among Indian metros

Bengaluru sets the national benchmark. The same role costs roughly 10 to 15% less in Hyderabad and 30 to 35% less in tier-two markets.

Hyring salary benchmarks, 2026

The Bengaluru Hiring Market in 2026

Bengaluru hiring runs on four distinct employer types spread across corridors that candidates will not commute between, which makes location as decisive as compensation.

The city is not one talent market, it is four overlapping ones. The Outer Ring Road corridor from Marathahalli through Bellandur to KR Puram holds the densest concentration of global capability centres in the country. Whitefield runs enterprise IT and a growing product cluster. Electronic City anchors the large services campuses in the south. Koramangala, HSR Layout, and Indiranagar hold the startup and venture-backed scene, where equity forms a real part of the package and candidates evaluate founders as much as offers. North Bengaluru around Manyata and the airport corridor is the fastest-growing of the four.

The practical consequence is one most employers underestimate: commute decides acceptances. A senior engineer living in Whitefield will decline an Electronic City role at the same package, and no recruiter charm changes that arithmetic. We screen for location and commute tolerance in the first round, alongside skill and intent, because a shortlist that ignores geography wastes your panel's time on candidates who were never going to sign.

The second Bengaluru-specific factor is offer competition. Assume every strong candidate is in at least one other process, assume a counteroffer, and compress your loop accordingly. Employers who move from shortlist to offer in under two weeks close here. Employers who run a leisurely four-round process over a month do not, regardless of brand.

What Top Roles Pay in Bengaluru

Bengaluru salaries set the national benchmark, running 10 to 15% above Hyderabad and 30 to 35% above tier-two markets for equivalent roles.

Indicative Bengaluru salary ranges, 2026 (verify current data in our salary benchmarks)

Role	3–5 yrs experience	6–9 yrs experience	Hyring fee at 7% (mid-range)
Software Development Engineer	₹12–22 LPA	₹25–45 LPA	₹84,000 – ₹2.45 lakh
Engineering Manager	₹-	₹35–65 LPA	₹2.45 – ₹4.55 lakh
DevOps / SRE	₹12–20 LPA	₹24–40 LPA	₹84,000 – ₹2.24 lakh
Data Scientist	₹12–20 LPA	₹22–40 LPA	₹84,000 – ₹2.17 lakh
Product Manager	₹15–25 LPA	₹30–55 LPA	₹1.05 – ₹2.98 lakh
Enterprise Sales / AE	₹10–18 LPA	₹20–38 LPA	₹70,000 – ₹2.03 lakh

Startup packages here often trade base for equity, so compare total compensation rather than CTC alone when benchmarking against GCC offers. Full data across 93 roles sits in our free salary benchmarks.

Recruitment Agency Fees in Bengaluru, Compared

Local agencies typically charge one month's CTC, 8.33%, rising to 10 to 20% for specialist roles, against Hyring's published flat 7%.

Bengaluru salaries are the highest in India, which means percentage fees bite hardest here. On a ₹25 LPA senior engineer the gap between a flat 7% and a specialist 20% is over three lakh rupees on a single hire, and most teams are filling several at a time.

Fee on a ₹25 LPA hire in Bengaluru

Conventions are typical market practice; the Hyring fee is published

Fact

Candidates never pay Hyring anything. Jobseekers apply free through Hyring Jobs, interview free, and prepare free with the Jobseeker Toolkit and interview questions library. Any consultancy charging candidates a placement fee is one to walk away from.

How Hyring Delivers in Bengaluru

Every candidate arrives pre-interviewed by AI, sourced by thousands of recruiting partners, and tracked in one portal instead of an email chain.

In a market where strong candidates hold multiple offers and counteroffers are routine, screening for genuine intent to move before your panel spends time is worth more than another stack of resumes. Six things run behind every shortlist:

Round one, already done

Every candidate completes an AI first round before you see them: video, coding, phone, or the English test where communication carries the role.

Every applicant ranked

The AI Resume Screener scores the full funnel against your brief, so nothing good gets buried under volume.

A video-first talent pool

Candidates join through Hyring Jobs, presenting on camera and interviewing as they apply. The database is assessed, not just collected.

Thousands of recruiters, not one

The Recruiting Partners network puts specialist recruiters on your role, paid on placements, every submission passing the same screen.

Panel rounds in Hyring Meet

Interviews are scheduled and held in Hyring Meet, our own video platform, so invites and recordings stay attached to the candidate record.

Transparency after the hire

Augmented teams run on Insight by Hyring: tracked hours and focus patterns, employees seeing their own data first. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified.

All of it lands in one portal: every candidate uploaded with recording and score attached, clear stages your whole team can see, and feedback captured on the profile instead of a WhatsApp thread nobody can audit later.

The Full Service Stack in Bengaluru

Direct hire at a flat 7% anchors a stack covering RPO, staff augmentation, IT staff augmentation, employer of record, and global hiring.

Services available to Bengaluru employers

Service	Best for	Pricing shape
Direct hire	Permanent roles across functions	Flat 7% of CTC
RPO services	Outsourcing part or all of recruitment	~30% below big-firm quotes
Staff augmentation	Dedicated professionals on your projects	~30% below big-firm quotes
IT staff augmentation	Engineering teams ramped fast	~30% below big-firm quotes
Employer of record	Global companies employing here without an entity	Per-employee monthly
Global hiring	Local companies building teams abroad	14% rest of world, 7% India

Bengaluru is also where our employer of record service sees the most demand, from global companies who want to hire the city's senior engineering talent without registering an Indian entity. We employ the team, run payroll and compliance, and you direct the work.

Hyring vs a Local Consultancy or In-House Team

Hyring fits employers who want published fees and interview evidence; a local consultancy still fits narrow trades where one recruiter owns the community.

Four ways to fill a Bengaluru role

Decision factor	Hyring	Local consultancy	National or global firm	In-house TA
Fee	Published flat 7% of CTC	Usually 8.33%, unpublished	15–20% typical	Salaries, tools, and job ads
First-round evidence	AI interview recordings and scores on every candidate	Recruiter's phone screen notes	Varies by practice and tier	Whatever your process produces
Employer visibility	Live portal: stages, evidence, decisions	Email, calls, and WhatsApp	Reporting on larger accounts	Your own ATS
Reach beyond Bengaluru	National database and partner network	Usually one city or region	Metro offices	Wherever your brand reaches
Best fit	Volume technology hiring where offer competition demands speed	Narrow trades with a tight local community	Multi-city leadership mandates	Steady, predictable hiring volume

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Adithyan RK

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CEO & Co-founder, Hyring

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Adithyan RK is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyring, an AI-native recruitment platform that has run over 900,000 AI interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. He has spent 18 years building technology businesses, starting with a digital consultancy in 2008 and a staff augmentation firm in 2017, before founding Hyring in 2022 to rebuild hiring around evidence instead of guesswork. Read more

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CTO & Co-founder, Hyring

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Surya N is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hyring, where he architected the AI interviewing engine that has now conducted over 900,000 interviews for companies ranging from early-stage startups to the Fortune 500. A mechanical engineer who moved into artificial intelligence, he spent 6 years building AI applications inside a technology consultancy before co-founding Hyring, and wrote the first version of its AI interviewer from scratch. Read more

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FAQs

Hyring recruits across Bengaluru at a flat 7% of CTC, with every candidate completing an AI first-round interview before you review them. Shortlists with recordings and calibrated scores arrive in 48 to 72 hours, which matters in a market where strong candidates hold multiple offers.