Fantastic and incredibly thoughtful interview process. From an operational standpoint, very personable and attentive technical interview process. Most other companies I interviewed with at the time would send a purposefully tricky technical assignment and never explain what went well or what went wrong. The BetterUp team instead designed a very human-centric process that involved an initial presentation of previous work, a homework assignment (working on a company-specific dataset), feedback on the assignment and another iteration, followed by an onsite presentation. From an emotional standpoint, it was a very uplifting process. Everyone from the company was fully present during the interview — not very common these days in Silicon Valley — as well as friendly and respectful. I could clearly sense throughout the process that people were driven by a strong mission and the desire for both personal and collective development. It’s really refreshing to see that a company puts so much emphasis on the candidate’s experience.

Extensive interview process (6-7); take home assignment upwards of 5-10 hours; and final interview with cofounder/COO who has the final decision making authority. All interviewers were nice, but the recruiter was either fantastic or absentee. The #1 issue I see with this interview process and company is that the entire interview process/panel concludes with the CoFounders having the final decision. This means that, despite their leadership/executive team spending 4-6 hours identifying high quality candidates to hire, the candidates are only those that are given a "hire" by a CoFounder. I Imagine this must feel very disempowering for hiring managers, is not cost effective, and introduces bias since every hire decision is made by only a handful of people.