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?
Some experience of having worked remotely, or from home before is important. You don’t really know until you’ve done it, if you will be happy.…
There are indeed, and we even wrote a blog post about our three favorite traits to look for. Put briefly, we look for people who…
Good communication and proper English is a must. If the cover letter or CV are badly worded, your chances to move forward in the hiring…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
Over the phone.
Our internal platform is a global hosted solution that not only handles scheduling, communication, and interviews, but also allows our remote workers to act as…
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…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
Part of this is visible in the 1-to-1 or group video interviews. We often provide an overview of our tools, processes, work schedules, etc. to…
The interview process mimics our day to day life and is all done remotely via phone, Google Hangout or Skype. As we speak to candidates,…
It’s discussed thoroughly in the interviews and evaluated in an essay question: “In a remote/distributed work environment, what does Fun, Action, Communication, Transparency and Trust…
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
Most of our team has approached us directly to ask if we’ve been hiring. That’s one of the advantages of being a relatively well-known remote…
We very rarely get to meet people in-person during the interview process, so we hold multiple video calls in order to expose applicants to a…
We hire remote workers from different channels – through our Jobs form on our site, conferences around the world, recommendations from other team members, using…
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
No.
Yes, we utilize HackerRank for our technical assessments, and also a background check service once the candidate is hired.
We don’t use any existing tools. Just a fair amount of sleuthing and reference checking.
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
We have built an intranet or what we call “our Digital Vault” with onboarding videos, guides, and a knowledge base. It’s also a place where…
They get all tools, instruction how we work, get to know our team and projects and they already are invited in our social slack channels…
It depends on the area they work in, but in general, colleagues working in the same area support the new workers in onboarding, mainly with…
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