GCC and Tech Hiring

Having a great team is crucial to the success of any company. But we often get so obsessed with hiring that we forget to ask some fundamental questions first. Are you sure you want to hire? Premature or rapid hiring can lead to several problems. For early stage startups, it can even be lethal due… Continue reading Before you start hiring

Hiring hackathons. They used to work so well. Geeks used to be excited about building something cool and getting recognized for it. The sponsoring companies were happy at the prospect of hiring some of these smart geeks. But then something went wrong. We started overdoing it. More and more companies felt obliged to join the… Continue reading Cutting short hiring hackathons

Like many of you, we have spent a fair time in hiring & faced several challenges. So many calls, so many meetings -most have yielded nothing. But recently we were able to hire someone in just 3 days flat, from start to finish. Upon reviewing the process we discovered some hiring hacks that we inadvertently used.… Continue reading Our hiring lessons

Startup hiring is hard. Not because there are not enough hiring solutions but because they deliver more noise than actual results. For example,  it is not uncommon to get 100+ applications on job posted on say LinkedIn, Naukri or HasJob. But most of these are irrelevant or come from fence-sitters. No wonder that one of the… Continue reading How is CutShort different from LinkedIn or Naukri?

Let’s admit it – startup hiring is tricky, time consuming and not exactly fun. Many of us find it as a huge distraction from the other “more exciting” activities we do at startups. So we tend to keep delaying hiring until it becomes a crying need. And when that happens, we force ourselves to repeat… Continue reading Startup hiring hack: Always be hiring

A bit of context first: Two weeks ago, we heard the unfortunate news that PubMatic was laying off 100+ people. To help the employees affected by this, we started an initiative to connect them with their prospective employers easily on our platform. Here is a brief checkpoint on what has happened since then. 40 companies have… Continue reading Two weeks after the PubMatic layoffs: here is what we have achieved so far