Interviewing

Our talent pipeline is an organizational moat. This guide walks you through our interviewing process.

Process

Menlo’s interview process is designed to be self-serve.

1. Application: Candidates apply through our careers page . We use a combination of AI and human review to shortlist candidates.
2. Initial Screening: Shortlisted candidates are invited to a 30-minute initial screening, usually with HR/founder.
3. 2-3 Interviews: Candidates are interviewed by 2-3 team members. Each interview is 30-45 minutes long.
4. Founder interview: The final interview is with one of the founders. This is a 30-minute interview.
5. Deliberation: Candidates are evaluated based on their interviews and portfolio. We aim to make a decision within 1 week.

We aim to be data-driven, and each open role is tracked in our ATS (BambooHR). We use this data to improve our hiring process.

Historically, our acceptance rate has been less than 1% of all applications. For direct referrals, this rate is higher at >10%.

Preparing for Interviews

To start interviewing, please follow these steps:

• Indicate your interest in helping with interviews to HR.
• Shadow existing interviews (2-3) to understand our process and ask questions.
• Create a Google Appointments link  for your interviews. Make sure to set a default Google Hangouts link. Share the link with HR.
• New candidates will automatically schedule interviews with you using the Google Appointments link.
• If you have an upcoming interview, review their resume and prepare thoughtful questions.
• Input detailed evaluations in BambooHR ATS after each interview.

Evaluation

We do not use a scoring system for interviews and prefer to encourage natural conversation.

However, if you do need an evaluation template, you can use the following: