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What they do

Ashby makes all-in-one recruiting software for companies from startups to enterprises. It joins an applicant tracking system (ATS), a CRM for sourcing, interview scheduling, and analytics in one product, with AI in each part. HR teams also use it for onboarding and performance management. Customers include Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

What they value

• Minimal process: engineers own decisions that product and design usually make.
• Natural collaboration and deliberate communication, with few meetings.
• Invest in tools and abstractions that give leverage.
• Put effort into building a diverse team.
• Work as a marathon, not a sprint, with regular hours.
• Give people a total lack of terrible managers.

Where they hire

All 74 open roles are remote. Ashby calls itself remote-first, with people in 26 countries. Most roles are open in the United States, Canada, or both. Many are open in the UK, Ireland, and the EU. Five support and customer success roles are in Asia and the Pacific, such as Australia and Japan. The postings do not mention visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

The board lists 74 roles, and most are in two teams. Many roles repeat for each region.

• Customer success: 30 roles in support, support engineering, implementation, customer success, and renewals. The support team is growing to cover all hours across time zones.
• Engineering: 23 roles for product, platform, and design engineers, and engineering managers. Engineers own projects end to end. They research the problem, write the product spec, build wireframes, and ship the solution.
• Sales: 13 roles, including account executives for mid-market and enterprise, solutions engineering managers, a demo engineer, and a GTM systems analyst.
• Product, design, and marketing: two product managers, two product designers, and two marketing managers.
• Data and people: a data analytics manager and a total rewards manager.

The stack is TypeScript on the frontend and backend, React, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, and Redis. Every posting gives a pay range, and all but one include equity.

What they look for

Engineering postings do not ask for this stack. Ashby says it cares more about fundamentals. It wants engineers who own projects from start to end and need little process. The product engineer posting says that more than 90% of the team is senior or above, so mentorship chances are few. Design engineer roles ask for two or more years as an engineer or designer.

Sales roles ask for two or more years of full-cycle closing for EMEA mid-market, and five or more for the Americas and enterprise. Implementation roles ask for five to seven or more years leading B2B SaaS implementations. Product designers need four or more years in desktop SaaS, or ten for staff.

The engineering interview has three rounds: a call with the hiring manager, a live pairing session in the real codebase, and three non-coding interviews. Ashby says that its interviews have no leetcode or whiteboard exercises.