For engineers

You can’t apply. You can get in.

Workpool is invite-only on both sides. There’s no application form, and that’s the point: every engineer in the pool proved it on real work first.

Be a top finalist in a Talented search

Talented recruits for founders every week. Apply to a role that fits you, and the strongest finalists are invited into the pool even if that client hires someone else.

See Talented

Get referred by someone in the pool

Engineers in the pool can refer people they’ve shipped with. Referred engineers still go through every stage. The referrer is paid if you’re placed.

The standard

01Screened on experience and EnglishExperience, English, past work
02Walked us through their hardest buildRecorded, end to end
03Fixed a broken codebase, AI mistakes includedFind it, fix it, catch the AI
04Defended the fix live to our senior engineerDefend the fix, live
05Shipped a build to a live siteShipped to a real URL

What you get

Paid for the build you ship as part of vetting
You only meet companies whose brief you read and opted into
No bidding wars. You set your monthly rate, and it’s on your profile
Retained directly by the company, not through an agency