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?
Is this person a team player? Is he/she excited about joining a team and accomplishing goals together rather than looking to be an individual super…
It’s so crucial for anyone working as part of a distributed team to have great communication skills and that can be obvious from the first…
We lean toward people who are active participants in outside communities. This demonstrates leadership, organization and passion being pursued by the applicant, all characteristics that…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
We use Google Hangouts for all of our coding interviews. Even developers who would be working out of an office are interviewed over Google Hangouts…
We conduct interviews for our remote jobs via phone, video, and in-person sessions. The variety of interview formats reveals our virtual culture to our candidates…
We are conducting the first one now by mix of email and video chat. If we happen to live close to some of the applicants,…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
We value team fit as most important and, therefore, have set a high importance on figuring out how every person fits into the team. Actually,…
We have written about our culture and point applicants to those articles. Often times the candidate brings it up in an interview, such as, “I…
We convey our remote culture in several ways during the recruiting process. First, we tend to source using job sites and other channels that are…
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
I request applicants to submit a video application and/or fill out a quiz, which puts them in common work scenarios to see how they react.
Our recruiters speak to our remote work setup and process and what to expect. We also encourage our interviewing teams to have someone included in…
The approach would be roughly the same, with video calls replacing the in-person meetings.
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
Yes, we do background checks on all our employees because we are in the information security space. We don’t use third-party testing.
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Yes, sometimes, but we don’t disclose this information openly.
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
We’ve been making leaps and bounds here recently and I’d like to share the background to show how things can improve over the years. For…
Onboarding can be done remotely, but frequently the new employees will meetup in person with their immediate supervisor for onboarding. It can be a nice…
For every new employee at Mavens, they are given a two-week hands-on training and orientation session where they are taught about the healthcare industry, Mavens’…
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