HIRING

Building a gigafactory in northern Sweden — above the Arctic Circle — was either visionary or insane. We had cheap clean energy and political support. What we didn't have was enough skilled workers willing to move there.

We are a remote company because the best developers do not all live in San Francisco. Some of them live in Singapore and some in Scotland.

We just want to have great people working for us.

We hire poker players and teach them finance, not the other way around.

Steve Jobs told me the key to success is hiring people smarter than you and then getting out of their way.

Hiring someone in Jakarta should be as easy as hiring someone in San Jose. We make that possible.

All-remote isn't a compromise. It's a competitive advantage. We hire the best people on Earth, not just near an office.

I fire the bottom 10% every year. It sounds harsh. But the people who stay become extraordinary.

We don't hire Wall Street people. We hire scientists. There's a reason for that.

Speed is the only thing that matters in hourly hiring. If you take three days to respond to a candidate, they already have another job.

We built Workstream because filling out a job application should not take longer than ordering a pizza.

If your hiring process takes longer than your competitor's, you are losing the best candidates before you even make an offer.

Most ATS products are built for compliance, not for hiring. There is a massive difference. One protects you from lawsuits. The other helps you find great people.

Every great hire starts with a relationship that was built months or years before the job opened. Gem makes that relationship trackable.

Silicon Valley does not have a talent shortage. It has a geography problem. We solved it.

We use AI to vet developers so companies do not have to spend months interviewing. Our system evaluates skills in hours, not weeks.

Every company says they hire the best. We actually prove it with a vetting process that takes weeks and filters out 97 percent of applicants.

We accept less than 3 percent of applicants. That is not elitism. That is quality control. When a client hires through Toptal, they get the best, not the available.

The engineering talent shortage is not real. There are incredible developers everywhere. The shortage is in companies willing to hire globally.

We need to find people who are hungry, who believe they can win, and who are going to bring that energy every single day. That is what we are looking for.

First and foremost the people in your business have to be extremely competent at what they do.

Much of an entrepreneur's success depends on the team he builds. You always have to hire people who are smarter than you.

Hire for Attitude, Fire for Aptitude. The world is full of smart people. It is those smart people who have the right attitude that make organisations great.