GigglyLlama
GigglyLlama

Rant about recruitment in startups

Hello people, We are building a recruitment platform to make hiring easy and fun. Having worked with a recruitment startup, we weren't able to hire for our own team. Hire first, fire faster mode ON tha humara.

So, we found this gap mostly in the early stage startups who don't invest in their recruitment properly.

So can you guys please share your experiences with landing a job with early stage startups.

17mo ago
Find out if you are being paid fairly.Download Grapevine
GigglyLlama
GigglyLlama

I'm interested in understanding how to measure candidates interest. As many candidates drop during the process. I want to know more about the triggers to drop from a hiring process.

Post covid there has been a lot of spike and from the surface it looks like a CTC game but I want to know what's beyond the salary game.

DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama

Reasons for dropping out / rejecting offer for me are -

  1. Low ball offer / they don't have money to hire top talent
  2. Cultural fit
  3. Don't believe in the problem they are trying to solve
  4. Improper/no clear communication from them across the rounds.
  5. The person taking the rounds is trying to be too casual - like whatsapping me "hey bro". I mean, wtf is that? Am I your bro? Do we know each other?
  6. No confidence that my manager would help me grow or will think of my well being
  7. The way rounds are conducted. There are 2 things I have observed. I'll answer it in this thread -
DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama
  1. Your interviewer takes your resume, and asks questions around what you have done and what you know. This is the interviewer who's coming in with the mindset to hire you! They are trying to find reasons on why you are right for them. These are the companies I tend to give interviews to!

  2. The interviewer may or may not collect your resume. They won't give a fuck about it. They will ask questions on what they know, what they feel like asking, like specific nittigritties of some thing they would've seen in their life. Then evaluate you based on it. They come up to rounds with mindset of rejecting you. To find why you aren't right for them. I tend to stay away from these interviewers, no matter how much they are ready to pay!

DizzyWaffle
DizzyWaffle

Interesting thought. Curious, how are you planning to do this.

GigglyLlama
GigglyLlama

By prioritizing candidate experience over anything else. We are trying our best to build a transparent and equitable platform.

DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama

Hey @ClearQuit26 , I don't think experiences would help you. Each early stage startup doesn't really have a set of process to follow, so everyone would have different unique experiences.

How about you define it in a better way?

  1. What do you think are the pain points for early stage startups while hiring?
  2. What do you think candidates go through during the hiring process with these?
  3. What problem in this are you thinking to solve?

Come back with answers to these and maybe then it would be a more refined thought which people might reply to

DizzySushi
DizzySushi

Have worked in the hiring space

What type of people are you planning to get placed?

GigglyLlama
GigglyLlama

Hey would love to get some insights from you. Our platform will be able to hire candidates for all roles. As we are sourcing profiles from across the web.

DizzyWaffle
DizzyWaffle

My reading is @Bornkiller may be suggesting to start with specific type of roles. Else one can try boil the ocean to no avail.

JazzyPancake
JazzyPancake

Early stage startups are dogshit w.r.t to employment policies, HR is non existent or just being a lapdog of management, lala company antics at best

GigglyLlama
GigglyLlama

Early stage startups don't emphasis a lot on talent. The HR is the less prioritized unit and still they look to build the best team.

Discover more
Curated from across
Indian Startups

Startup hiring is flawed

Startups will make you do 10 page recruitment assignment include questions like gtm strategy ,how to handle multiple scenarios , make you do product demo etc Only for the founder to come and reject you without reading into any of these....

Indian Startups

A rant on startups

The current startup tech employees and founders are filled with so much junkies who do not care about the product at all.

The culture is set when the startup is founded,when the first set of employees arrive. These folks are some of ...

FAANG

Companies in India to maximise TC

Currently Senior at Microsoft with TC ~1 crore, which will drop by 20-25% in few months on hitting cliff.

With no SSA or promotion in sight, what are the best companies in India to switch in next 4-5 months for max TC and career growth ...

51K
Top comment
user

Reading this, i feel i am wasting oxygen