HR update: hiring, hiring, hiring!We’ve been keeping very busy to find the new members to our great team. Currently, our main focus is growing our engineering power. A rather tough task, considering the expectations on the candidates are high.
Careful considerationRight now we are building the core team of our company and the people joining us in this stage will play an integral role in creating the company’s future. This is why we are taking our time to very carefully analyze all applicants and although we have a lot of applications coming in, very few have passed the evaluation process.
Just like Sam Altman, the founder of Y combinator, brilliantly said:
“What we have seen is the best startups hire the least and the slowest in the very beginning. AirBnb took 9 months to hire their first person. Dropbox took “a long time” to hire their first person. Stripe took 6 months to hire their first person”
Evaluation processTo be sure that anyone joining us is a perfect fit to the company culture and values, our hiring process consists of 4 steps:
1Pre-screening interview — 30–45 min call regarding applicant’s motivation, product thinking, main achievements, ambitions etc.
2Development team interview — 1.5h conference call focusing on technological knowledge and skill set, also conducting a small coding task.
3Product Manager interview — deeper look into the mindset to understand the candidate’s way of thinking and find out if there’s the “Special habanero sauce” in the inside we are looking for.
4CEO interview — final round to see the overall match to the company.
This week we had 15 pre-screening interviews, 4 tech team interviews, 4 product/design team interviews, and 2 meetings with our CEO Kristjan. We’re very happy to see that all the hard work we’ve put into interviewing has lead to the first results as well- we made 2 offers to promising candidates in the last few days.
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