The Founder’s Bible: Hiring & Retaining Talent in India

200+ companies × 2,000+ hires × 500+ success stories → distilled into one playbook.
Hire faster • Stay compliant • Retain talent • Scale smooth • Save time

How this helps you

Hire faster
Where to find talent & what to pay
Stay compliant
Avoid payroll/tax penalties
Retain talent
Stop losing people at 6 months
Scale smooth
1 hire → 100+ without chaos
Save time
Proven templates & checklists

Inside the playbook

Chapter 1 : Hiring Playbook
Where to source engineers, designers, sales talent
Salary benchmarks (real data, 2025)
Interviewing frameworks that filter fast
Chapter 2 : Payroll & Compliance 101
CTC vs. take-home explained
Contractor vs. employee: true cost difference
Tax & labor law traps to avoid
Chapter 3 : Retention Secrets
Why people quit in India (patterns you can fix)
First 90 days onboarding kit
Benefits that actually matter
Chapter 4 : Scale Framework
How to go from 1 → 10 → 100 hires
Automating payroll, compliance, HR ops
When to set up entity vs. use EOR/AOR
Chapter 5 : Templates & Tools
Offer letter & contract templates
Onboarding checklist
Salary benchmark calculator
Chapter 6 : War Stories
Mistakes that caused 40% attrition overnight
How unicorns built teams with <5% churn
Lessons from 200+ companies in India

What our customers say

Founders, Leaders and HR heads of fast growing startups across US, Europe, SEA and Oceania love our services
The Wisemonk team played a key role in helping us hire for specialized B2B SaaS marketing skills. We were able to build the team within four months, and hire experienced professionals from Tier 1/major B2B SaaS brands. This includes SEO, digital marketing, business development, product marketing, content marketing, and GTM roles. They are a great partner providing integrated services for EOR and recruitment/hiring and I’d recommend them to any B2B SaaS vendor.
Saurabh Sharma
Chief Marketing Officer at Onereach
Working with the Wisemonk team in India has been a genuinely positive experience from day one. They've been consistently accessible and are building fantastic relationships with our local team. As someone based in the UK, I value the quality of compliance Wisemonk brings — I have full confidence when it comes to financial, legal, and HR matters. They've ensured our team is managed in line with local employment law and have also been flexible when we've wanted to go beyond statutory requirements. Whether it's increasing annual leave or tailoring health insurance, they've offered clear guidance to help us enhance the benefits we provide. It's been a great partnership.
Lisa Jones
Chief People Officer at Couch Health
Wisemonk is a key partner for EOM-Energy O&M Services, playing an essential role in supporting our operations. Their seamless payment solutions make transactions not only simple and fast but also reliable. The team’s responsiveness, professionalism, and proactive approach give us complete confidence in every interaction. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration, using Wisemonk both for Employer of Record services and for recruitment support, to help us expand our team in India in the short and medium term.
José Enrique Montero Pérez
CEO at Couch Health
Process was professional & very smooth. We've worked with Wisemonk to source developers in India and it's worked incredibly well for us. We are very pleased with the talent of the developers and the Wisemonk process was professional and very smooth. We highly recommend using Wisemonk for talent sourcing!
Gear Fisher
Co-founder at Onform
I'm very Happy that I discovered Wisemonk. They have been a pure pleasure to work with, and their attention to detail is impressive. They helped us understand their pricing model, find top-qualified individuals, interview them, and then onboard them. I gave them criteria for the type of people we sought, and they delivered. The individuals they were able to find have been some of the best engineers I have ever worked with. I recommend Wisemonk to anyone who is in need of staffing assistance.
Dan Sampson
Head of Engineering at Cobu
I highly recommend them. Wisemonk helped us tap into the vibrant and top-notch Indian talent market and hire our first couple of founding engineers in record time. We've been able to accelerate our roadmap and deliver terrific value to our customers thanks to Wisemonk's efforts. They are easy to work with and very transparent about the process. I highly recommend them to any company looking for talent located in India.
Krishna Ramachandran
Co-founder at Onform

Proof in Numbers

200+

fast-growing companies scaled teams in India with us

2,000+

hires placed across engineering, product, sales, support

<5%

attrition in long-term teams we helped build

99%

payroll accuracy month after month

4+

years average retention in 10+ member teams for global clients

WHO THIS IS FOR

Startup founders hiring in India for the first time
Global HR leaders expanding here
Operators tired of compliance + payroll headaches

Don't waste 6 months learning the hard way

Get the systems and shortcuts founders use to scale India teams right.