Hiring Remotely
140 companies answer 6 questions
In our Hiring Remotely section you'll learn how best in class remote companies use their remote status to recruit the top candidates in the world. Discover how you can increase your applicant pool and find and interview the best candidates remotely.
What traits do you look for in candidates for a remote job?
I’m struggling with this question because I’d like to say that people who have worked on their own before (freelance) are usually successful, although sometimes…
Like most places, we want self-starters that are good at budgeting their time and that don’t need babysitting. Working from home can be tough for…
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These are the guidelines we look for when hiring a candidate: You like to work from your own home or other workspace, and do not…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
We communicate with the applicants through Skype. We like the personability of Skype calls to have a virtual meeting with the applicants.
Most often via Skype. Most of our team members then have a trial period to allow us both to make sure that it’s a good…
Currently, we hire locally and the interview is done in our office. We are prepared to do this in a Google Hangout or other virtual…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
To start with, almost all of our interviews are done remotely, so that’s a pretty good tip-off about how we work. We talk about our…
People love this when looking for a job. It really excites people that they can do a job that they love while working from home.…
We explain it as both a benefit and a responsibility. There are a lot of great things that go along with it, and many people…
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
We have the same amount of interviews. If we are hiring remotees and they are not able to come to Cologne/Berlin for an onsite meeting,…
Probably the big difference is that you look harder for personal passions. The applicant’s raison d’être. If they are turning up to work remotely every…
Broadly speaking, our profile for customer care professionals is the same: we’re looking for people whose passion and personality will make them excellent at delivering…
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
Yes, we utilize HackerRank for our technical assessments, and also a background check service once the candidate is hired.
Not often, but as needed and/or depending on the role.
We don’t. We use intuition, which may sound a bit “fly by the seat of our pants” like, but we’ve been very lucky so far…
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
After the interview, we give everyone a small project that takes two or three weeks to complete. We don’t necessarily care if they succeed, but…
Our app has an onboarding feature that creates a personalized onboarding process for each new hire. It’s important to do regular weekly and monthly check-ins…
After an offer is accepted and contract signed, onboarding starts. We provide the candidate with a company email and all needed accounts, we share a…
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