Hiring Remotely
140 companies answer 6 questions
In our Hiring Remotely section you'll learn how best in class remote companies use their remote status to recruit the top candidates in the world. Discover how you can increase your applicant pool and find and interview the best candidates remotely.
What traits do you look for in candidates for a remote job?
The fact that we’re fully distributed means we highly value strong communicators, both verbally and in written form, so that’s one of the first things…
We look for someone who is self-motivated, has a superior work ethic, is technically savvy, and has the ability to work without distractions in their…
We want candidates who are positive, really motivated, self-managed, able to work with minimal supervision, and show passion about WordPress and what they do. We…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
It depends on the team. For the customer support team and some of the development teams, the first interview is text-based. Since we’re remote-first, it’s…
It’s the same process as office hires, except that we do video interviews rather than in person. Each role has a different recruitment process.
We run 4 rounds of interviews for all of our candidates. Everything is coordinated through google Calendar and Google Hangouts. Some of the interviews are…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
The remote culture is communicated in the same way for our remote and on-site job seekers, because it’s such an integral part of our company…
All people we are interviewing know that we are working remote. For many of them it is one of the main reason to work for…
We explain it as both a benefit and a responsibility. There are a lot of great things that go along with it, and many people…
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
We only hire remote workers, so we can’t speak to how this would be different from on-site hiring. A high-level overview looks like this: Application…
We only hire remote workers. We do most of our hiring by running online job ads. We post them a variety of places including FlexJobs…
Our approach to hiring remote workers has to be different from hiring on-site workers because not everyone is cut out to be a remote worker.…
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
No. We only check references.
We do 100% of the testing and evaluation process of hiring in-house. That said, we do use Workable to manage our application processes from start…
Not currently.
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
We’ve done both in-person and remote onboarding. Which one we use with each new employee is based on location and availability.
We use the onboarding feature from Bamboo HR to ensure that all the right forms and documents are read. We identify opportunities to further cement…
We use a Company Orientation Checklist, which we manage with process.st. Additionally, every new colleague has a job coach and an orientation leader. During their…