Hiring Process
What to expect.
A skills test, four interviews, and a written review from every person who met you. It takes a while, and it is the same for everybody who applies.
Four Steps
- Step 1
Pre-interview skills test
The first step is a skills-based test, sent before any interview conversation happens. It is there to check compatibility on a practical level first, so that neither side spends four conversations discovering something a short exercise would have shown.
Who sends it, and what it means
The hiring team sends a skills test to any candidate they think might be an excellent fit. Completing one does not guarantee an interview.
- Step 2
Interview rounds
Applicants who come through the skills test are contacted by the hiring team to begin the interview rounds. Every round is four separate conversations, and they are always with these four people:
- Your direct hiring manager
- A VP or Director
- The CPO or COO
- Michael Tuszynski, our CEO
You are not the only one
We interview three applicants at the same time. Everyone in a round meets the same four people and answers to the same bar.
- Step 3
The One-Pager meeting
After every interview is done, each interviewer writes a One-Pager and shares it with everyone else who interviewed you, so the decision is made on a complete picture rather than on whoever spoke last.
One of three things happens
- An offer goes to a candidate.
- A second candidate is identified as a great fit, and we ask their permission to consider them in the next hiring round.
- A second candidate is not identified as a fit, and we formally close the process with them.
- Step 4
Offer and onboarding
Once an offer is accepted, the new Squad Member is introduced to the people who run onboarding. You meet the whole group before your first project:
- The Squad Success Lead
- Your own direct manager
Who we are looking for.
A bar raiser
Someone who is a value-add to the existing Squad environment. Put simply, you make the whole company better in real, measurable ways just by being here.
An ideal team player
Humble
Quick to point out the contributions of others and slow to seek attention. Defines success collectively rather than individually.
Hungry
Self-motivated and diligent. Constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity.
Smart
Interpersonally appropriate and aware. Good judgment and intuition around group and interpersonal dynamics, and an understanding of the impact of words and actions.
Humble, hungry, and smart is Patrick Lencioni’s definition of an ideal team player. We use it as written.
Ready when you are.
There is nothing open at the moment. Send your resume anyway and it goes in front of the Squad Leads when the next role opens.
