‘She outperformed everyone’: How a startup’s unorthodox hiring strategy turned a college fresher into a star performer

In the industry that often gives experience and deep artistic know -how, the simple employment strategy to start young people is that the capabilities can outperform the accreditation data.

A few months ago, the team found a start -up company at an early stage, they play more than 600 requests for a front role. Instead of choosing the traditional path for long interviews or domestic tasks-which have been criticized as an unpaid worker-choose to start a different path.

Participate in a five -page front on the basic UX concepts with 100 brief candidates and called each session of 15 minutes. hunting? Each questioning question was accurately derived from the common material. “Everyone gave a fair snapshot,” the founder participated on Radet. “We have not tested previous knowledge, but for the ability to think, learn and apply.”

This approach led them to the discovery of 10 prominent candidates. One of them, who is still in the college, will continue to outperform designers and experienced developers in their team.

“At first, I was skeptical,” the founder admits. “But CTo insisted that we give her a chance – and proved to us all wrongly.” The trainee soon emerged as one of the team’s most running team members, not because she knew everything, but because she learned quickly, worked modestly, and implemented it with consistency.

The experiment has strengthened the principle of a major employment for the team: giving priority to learning the ability to experience, especially in the startup environment, as it does not matter light -moving and growth more than fixed skills.

The founder also took a steady position against exploitative evaluation practices, such as unpaid tasks around the internal code bases. They said: “This is not the evaluation – it is a free work. The candidates cannot object because the dynamics of power is very deviant.”

This post sparked a long discussion on Reddit with many of them wondering whether the trainee is paid for her work, which was answered by the author of the publication in the positivity.

Another user published: “Run 2 IT companies. Almost every year, the best trainee outperforms 90 % of the employees for us.” The user attributed it to a set of factors. “Startups can carry the best students, but not the best employees. The trainees have superpowers by default and are obligated there to prove themselves. Startups often work with critical vision / projects that extend to a few months’ arrangement – instead of multi -year visions like large ORGS – so that they can do cash in such projects (I think large companies cannot include).”