--- title: Recruitment process | daily.dev description: How daily.dev hires: a transparent 6-stage process, 4 to 6 hours of total interview time, no trick questions, no unpaid project work, and decisions in days rather than weeks. canonical: https://daily.dev/recruitment-process/ og:type: website og:url: https://daily.dev/recruitment-process/ og:title: Recruitment process | daily.dev og:description: How daily.dev hires: a transparent 6-stage process, 4 to 6 hours of total interview time, no trick questions, no unpaid project work, and decisions in days rather than weeks. og:image: https://daily.dev/og-image.png?v=a830cdf1 og:site_name: daily.dev og:locale: en_US twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev twitter:creator: @dailydotdev twitter:title: Recruitment process | daily.dev twitter:description: How daily.dev hires: a transparent 6-stage process, 4 to 6 hours of total interview time, no trick questions, no unpaid project work, and decisions in days rather than weeks. twitter:image: https://daily.dev/og-image.png?v=a830cdf1 --- ## How we hire We optimize the recruitment process for two things: respect for the candidate's time, and quality we can actually trust. ### The steps 1. **Application**: short form, no cover letter required. Apply via the role on the [careers page](https://daily.dev/careers/), or email `hi@daily.dev` if nothing open fits you 2. **Intro chat** (30 min): with the hiring manager. Two-way: we tell you about the work, you tell us what you are looking for 3. **Take-home or live exercise**: scoped to about 2 hours, paid where local rules allow, designed around real work the role does 4. **Team interviews** (90 to 120 min total): usually two conversations: technical depth and craft / collaboration 5. **Founder chat** (30 min): with one of the founders, focused on values, ambition, and questions you have 6. **Offer**: within 48 hours of the founder chat. We share the full comp range up front ### What we evaluate - **Craft**: taste, rigor, attention to the work - **Output bias**: ship-vs-discuss ratio - **Async fluency**: written communication, decision documentation - **Open-source instincts**: how you handle being wrong in public ### What we do not evaluate - Pedigree. We do not care where you went to school or which name brand you worked at - Brain teasers, whiteboard puzzles, leetcode trivia - Hours worked. We hire grown-ups; you decide when your brain is on [See the rendered recruitment process page](https://daily.dev/recruitment-process/) for the full story. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/og-image.png?v=a830cdf1","width":1200,"height":630},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.instagram.com/dailydotdev"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","description":"Free, personalized developer news aggregator. 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