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# How Does it Work? 🔧

## It's simple.

Think of us as a marketplace. 

On one side we have tech startups that are growing fast and need to hire engineers ASAP [👨‍💻](https://emojipedia.org/male-technologist/)

On the other we have engineers that are interested in working for the coolest tech startups [🤖](https://emojipedia.org/robot-face/)

**Good so far?**

So, whenever we make a match in this marketplace, the startups pay TalentNode a success fee equal to 15% of the hired developer's first year salary.

Unlike other recruitment companies with the same business model, we use 20% of this fee to grow the open-source community. We do this by sponsoring open-source projects, developers, and initiatives. [🎊](https://emojipedia.org/confetti-ball/)