Startup Recruitment Failures

In this podcast, Marius, Co-Founder at Orbio, shares his personal approach to the situations that happened in the past and advices on how to not get attached to failures personally. Listening to his gut feeling and taking risks is an integral part of success. You'll hear about the right attitude towards dealing with setbacks and how he navigated several difficult situations throughout the life of Orbio.

How to deal with a complex, antagonistic, or misaligned employee? Strong feedback process, good knowledge of labor law, and relying on hard data instead of playing an opinion game - that’s only a few of the tips Rimante, COO at Omnisend, gave. Omnisend suggests how to remain strong and standing when facing a disturbance within a team caused by one person - listen or read on Startup Recruitment Failures podcast.

In the early stage of business, one needs to wear many hats - Egle Tumenaite, CEO & Co-Founder at CornerCase Technologies remembers these days were a bit overwhelming. She shares her insights about growing a company from scratch - encountering some tricky situations and various obstacles. Which, she says, is inevitable to make massive progress in the long run. Entering an unfamiliar market with a recruiter from a different sector, competing for IT specialists and their attention, contributing to the local market, and much much more - listen or read on Startup Recruitment Failures podcast.

Kilo Health culture is exactly what a lot of startups are seeking nowadays. Being the second fastest growing company in Europe, Kilo Health must have an exceptional team built. Ugne Civile - Talent Acquisition Partner at Kilo Health -  provides us with a better understanding of what it feels like to belong to Kilo Health, the importance of cultural fit, homework for a candidate and following your emotion, when in doubt.

Whatagraph can be proud of its wide diversity - having people of 20 different nationalities and coming from all religious backgrounds. Justas Malinauskas - CEO & Co-Founder has been with Whatagraph since the very beginning. In the process of hiring more than 100 people, he learned a lot. In this episode, Justas shares some thoughts on navigating the company's culture, having an open-door policy, the importance of diversity, and hiring those who do not follow the rules set in stone.

When you are a young bootstrapped startup, you cannot afford a C-level manager for sales. So you hire juniors and expect them to grow. CoinGate Co-Founder Dmitrijus reflects on how this strategy backfired and shares valuable insights from this experience.

Vinted is a second-hand clothing marketplace valued at over a cool billion (the first unicorn in Lithuania - yay!). Mindaugas joined 10 years ago as employee #13, and now he leads a team of 400 engineers. What a ride! He shares about a Senior Manager who had a very strong background, but just couldn't thrive at Vinted.

BitDegree recently raised a $1M investment led by Taizo Son, the younger brother of Masayoshi Son of Softbank. Danielius shares stories about the loss of a good CTO candidate, friction when working in an international team, and challenges facing an exodus of 10 people after changing the company’s direction.

It seems so obvious: when you hire, you need to invest in onboarding. However, we often tend to forget what is obvious and expect new employees to join the team and start delivering.

SurfShark Founder & CEO Vytautas Kaziukonis talks about relying more on procedures rather than the gut when hiring people and shares an amusing story about a Head of Sales who could not sell because of a basic skill missing that nobody checked for.