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Hiring is a very difficult topic. We have a very long hiring process. I had more than 8 interviews, a full day with my potential colleagues and a home assignment. I think the best advice is : “do not underestimate hiring”. If someone has a reserve on any future employee, just stop the process and seek the next one. One bad hiring can costs you a lot.

It’s true that our hiring process is quite long. But this is because we really want to make sure that we, as a team, would like to work with the new hire.

If we ask our potential hires to spend a full day at the office, it’s to show them how life at Algolia really is, so they can see if that it is what they had in mind. On the other hand, it lets us spend some time with them, discussing various topics and have a “gut feeling” if we’d like to work together.

There’s something unique in working with smart and brilliant people who share your same passion for the product and love to get shit done while having fun at the same time.

It’s definitely important for us to know the person behind the candidate and see how they can complement your daily job with their skills and personality. That’s why it’s so hard to hire the right people and why it takes so much time to build the right team.

We keep hiring "better than us", it's really something you always need to focus on. Our team is composed by customer-centric people, crazy about fixing all the broken search bars we're used to use everyday: we all want to fix them!!!