Hiring Remotely
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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?
Good communication, especially writing, is key! Most of our communication happens over chat so we look critically at their ability to explain complicated things clearly…
People who have worked independently before is a positive. Confidence in their skills is a big positive as well. Shyness and lack of confidence are…
People who have worked remotely before are ideal candidates. We also look for people who have a strong work ethic, exhibit the ability to work…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
We have one of the most rigorous assessment/interview processes, for both Crossover team members and the contractors we hire as part of these remote teams.…
Lots of calls. For engineers we do engineering tests. We look for people with a lot of initiative.
Interviews are conducted over UberConference. We ask a lot of detailed questions during the application process that allows us to narrow down the applicants pretty quickly…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
We use social media and various digital properties to share remote stories featuring our employees on an ongoing basis. In particular, we love Instagram as…
We always aim at painting the picture as realistic as possible. Usually, every candidate has to speak to one remote working colleague during the process.
It’s discussed thoroughly in the interviews and evaluated in an essay question: “In a remote/distributed work environment, what does Fun, Action, Communication, Transparency and Trust…
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
We use the same general process, though our candidate pool is much larger, and interviews include much discussion around compatibility with working remotely.
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, so the process can be a little longer sometimes. We are OK with this as it means we ensure that…
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
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…
We design prescreen assessments for all candidates as part of the interview process using a 3rd party platform to host the forms. In addition, we…
Depending on the position, we will utilize a background check service to conduct a background check on that specific person.
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
We have built an intranet or what we call “our Digital Vault” with onboarding videos, guides, and a knowledge base. It’s also a place where…
Onboarding is done through a series of online collaboration tools. We have a new hire orientation on the first day, just as we would if…
We have a master Trello board we copy for each hire that lays out in detail the access needed/given, the benefits enrollment process (zenefits.com), notes…