## Project

* First off, what is Indivizo?

Indivizo is a web application that provides a set of products for human resources specialists. Our flagship product is Indivizo Selection, that is a video interview platform.

    * Allows HR professionals to use video interviews as part of their selection process

    * Asynchronous interviews — no need to schedule anything, everything is automatic

    * Question databank, interview plans

    * Each answer is recorded as a standalone video

    * Unique workflow: allows you to focus on the competencies and skills of your candidates

    * Other products: ATS, Search

* Why is it a good approach to use video interviews in the selection process?

    * Saves time (up to 90%)

    * Better evaluation: objective, easier...

    * We recommend to use it for first-round selection, but...

* Where did the idea come from?

    * My partners are HR consultants and organizational developers with over a decade of experience on the field. They have helped many organizations in selection processes…

    * The project emerged from real world needs, with real expertise on the field

    * Our strength is how we work together

    * We are an HR company with technology

    * Global trends show that supporting HR and talent management with technology is getting more and more significant. An HR department plays a key role in an organization’s success, making the need of developing this area imperative.

* What is your target group?

    * Everyone! :)

        * Large-scale corporations (IT, telecommunication, SSC, bank and insurance)

        * Small and medium scale companies (without HR department)

* Switching to the technology side… What’s the biggest architectural decision when building a Saas app?

    * Separation of customer spaces: application vs. server level

* What are the pros and cons for these two?

    * Important factors:

        * Access control

        * Provisioning new “user space”

        * Deployment

        * Building server infrastructure

        * Scaling

        * Centralized billing system

        * Client customization

* Which direction was taken with Indivizo? Why?

    * Installation profile, separation on the server-level, provisioning a separate instance for each customer

        * Drush make

        * Build script

    * Scaling and customization

* What is the server infrastructure behind Indivizo?

    * One single VPS, custom scripts

    * Waiting for Commerce Platform to be released:

        * Modern, scalable, cloud-based hosting solution that is modeled on agile development best practices. Its unique capability revolves around managing the infrastructure topology and configuration using the same git-based tools that you use to manage your code.

* What are the key modules of the installation profile of Indivizo?

    * Bootstrap

    * Page manager and Panels everywhere

    * Message stack

    * Organic Groups

    * Naturally: Views, Entity API

* How are the videos recorded?

    * With the help of a third-party vendor

    * Recording happens through a flash widget

    * Videos are hosted by our vendor

    * We use video.js to play the videos

* You mentioned a question databank. How does that work?

    * Centralized place to curate the content - separate Drupal installation

    * Client sites fetch the content through a RESTful API

    * We have future plans with this question databank…

* Big organizations often have existing systems in place. Can you integrate with those?

    * It’s common that a client already has an ATS

    * We can retrieve applicant data through our RESTful API

* What is it like to build a product with Drupal

    * Insanely fast until about the 80%...

    * Amazing prototyping tool

    * I learnt what agile really means: for me is changing directions as quickly as we can

    * Reacting on customer feedback

    * Releasing as early as possible

        * “If you are not ashamed of your product when you launched, you launched too late” - Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn

    * I jumped into this project as a developer, but working on a product requires more of a business mindset

        * As a developer I liked polishing things until they are (nearly) perfect...

    * Shipping on time and on budget is essential, even when what you ship is rough

    * I’m gonna do a session about this topic at Drupal Developer Days in Szeged

* Where are you at with Indivizo?

    * Expanding on the Hungarian market…

    * Working on a strategy to reach out customers in broader Europe

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