REBORRN Operating System
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How we hire

Often the recruitment process in REBORRN will be quite lengthy and exhaustive. Although it's important to hire fast, it's more critical to us to hire the right people even at the expense of time.

1️⃣ Criteria

We hire for attitude and train for skills. We look for character before credentials and we hire people who fit our culture, values, and are inspired by our purpose.

Culture Fit: We look for people who are curious, doers, care about their work and others, and want to have an impact and make a difference. People who are team players: open, honest, and sincere. Long story short, we are looking for people who embrace our values. This is non-negotiable and this is why we try to assess it from the first screening we have with the candidate.
Potential to Learn & Grow: What got us here won't get us where we want to be in a couple of years. That's why we need people willing to continuously learn new things, and be open to taking challenges even when they are out of their comfort zone.
Flexibility and tolerance for ambiguity: We are a startup, in a highly competitive space, in a fast-paced environment. Things will change. Things will break. We look for people that are willing to create their own job roles. That are resilient, agile and will push forward no matter what. They must be totally OK not knowing what will happen in the next year. Cause we honestly, don’t know what is coming in the future.
Brings something new to the team. A skill, POV, past experience, way of doing things. We are a diverse tribe and this diversity gives us a unique & competitive advantage. We seek people with complementary skills and not copycats of who we already are.
No room for Brilliant Jerks: A brilliant jerk may do an exceptional job delivering competency-based results but is toxic. We have zero tolerance for toxicity, politics and anything that will influence negatively our culture.

2️⃣ Our Do’s and Don'ts

✅ Things we do:

  • We practice candor even in our recruitment process. We want to be transparent not only with the brilliant aspects of REBORRN, but also its challenges. We are not everyone’s cup of tea - and that is ok. We don’t aim to hire top talent, but the right talent.
  • We create a friendly interview environment and at the same time, we will not compromise for textbook answers - we will push candidates to get authentic and straightforward ones.
  • We hire people who are better than us.
  • We give feedback - even when a candidate doesn’t get hired.

⛔️ Things we avoid:

  • Hire people who are similar to us (yes, there are unconscious biases here, but we try to avoid them by involving different people in the process). However, we don’t seek diversity just for the sake of it, we genuinely hire the best regardless of gender, age, nationality, background, etc.
  • We follow Mark Horstman’s advice and when we are in doubt, we don’t hire.
  • We don’t promise things we can not deliver.

3️⃣ Our Recruitment Process

Staying true to our ways of working, we have a roadmap blueprint but also customise the process depending on the position.

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Step 1: The Job Ad

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Step 2: Let’s Meet Each Other

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Step 3: Structured Interview

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Step 4: Case Study

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Step 5: Team Chemistry Chit-Chat

4️⃣ Our Interview Questions

Although no interview is the same, we are happy to share here some examples of the questions we like. As you may observe, most of them are behavioral based and they are connected to our values.

💬Interview Questions DB - Template

5️⃣ Our Offer Letter

Now, here we want to extend an offer the candidate can not refuse.

Check out here what this offer letter consists of and a template: