We are a software development company. We are not, by trade, in the hiring business
— but we run around 140 interviews a month, and for years that
was simply the cost of doing business. Screening calls stacked on top of delivery work.
Engineers pulled off projects to sit through first rounds. Calendars three weeks deep.
Good candidates lost to whoever replied faster.
So we built DilloView for ourselves first. Not as a product — as a way to stop
losing our own week to first-round calls. It worked well enough that we kept going.
Today DilloView saves us more than 1,400 man-hours every month, and our
hiring got both faster and better — because we stopped guessing from CVs. Every
applicant gets the same interview, whether their CV was polished by a career coach or
typed out in a hurry. It turns out a lot of the people we would once have filtered out
on paper interview extremely well. We would never have met them.
So here is our success story, in full: we put up with this pain for years,
then finally fixed it ourselves. That is the whole triumph. Having been slow
about it, the least we can do is not make everyone else wait as long — so we are
sharing it with the world.