Startup Recruitment Failures

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. Mindaugas joined 10 years ago as employee #13, and now he leads a team of 400 engineers. What a ride! Mindaugas is sharing his recruitment failure in hiring a Senior Manager. The clash was that the Manager was from a well-structured company, and Vinted, at that time, was a Startup that grew fast and didn't have time to define all the procedures and policies.

BitDegree recently raised a 1M dollar investment. The investment is 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 when facing an exodus of 10 people after changing company’s direction.

It seems so obvious: when you hire, you need to invest in onboarding. However, most of the time we tend to forget about what is obvious and expect new employees would just join our team and start delivering.

Surfshark recently merged with NordVPN and became a unicorn. 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.