Startup Recruitment Failures

Even before the pandemic, MailerLite practiced a fully remote way of working. Until now they think it's the best way to work and cooperate within your team. In this episode, Ilma Tiki, the CEO, and Co-Founder at the Remote Company (COO at MailerLite) shares her insights on hiring - proceeding with selection using writing tasks, not falling for a candidate's positivity, and making sure your company is inclusive.

Revolut is conquering the world - currently having almost 6,000 people employed. Andrius Biceika has been a part of this incredible journey for six years. In this episode, he shares tips and tricks on hiring, talks about the importance of the probation period, and choosing the right questions for filtering that perfect match for your startup.

Hostinger can be proud of more than 1,000 employees and offices successfully established abroad. In this episode, Arnas Stuopelis, CEO at Hostinger, shares his experience on hiring decision-making, dealing with a pathological liar in the workplace, and staying true to yourself in times of emotional farewells.

In this episode, Andrius Šlimas, Ex-Director of Product at Shopify shares his experience in blitzscaling business. He talks about the importance of fighting your implicit biases, being patient, and not falling for big, catchy corporate names when selecting new hires.

In this episode, Linas Armalys, CEO at Noviti Finance, shares his experience in hiring – finding some strange details in the candidates' CVs and saying goodbye to new hires. Linas also talks about the importance of homework tasks and how to use them in the hiring process.

Listen or read and find out how to avoid mistakes earlier and build a strong, glued team.

Do you know how hard it is to build a company of 2000 employees and deal with the issues on the way? In this episode, Jonas Karklys, Co-Founder at NordVPN, talks about the difficulties of scaling internationally and shares some tips on how to overcome them. There will be perseverance and hustling involved, but success will be yours - keep pushing!

If there is one thing that people should know about startups, it's the culture and attitude. This is what matters the most - says Julius, Founder, and CEO at Cloudvisor. We can gain experience and learn new skills, but changing the approach and mindset is a tough task. Listen or read more about how hiring less skilled colleagues could benefit your startup growth and why you need to experiment in the early stage of business.

In this podcast, Marius, Co-Founder at Orbio, shares his personal approach to the situations that happened in the past and advice on how to not get attached to failures personally. Listening to his gut feeling and taking risks are integral parts of success. You'll hear about the right attitude toward 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.