Consensys Cuts Manual Screening by Over 20 Hours per Role With Vervoe

The challenge

Consensys hires more than 100 highly technical roles a year, often drawing thousands of applications per role for software engineering, frontend, backend, and fullstack positions. Existing coding challenges and assessment tools did not reach the skill depth Consensys needed to verify, completion rates were not optimal, and hiring managers had to grade the results of thousands of applicants by hand.

The approach

Consensys worked with Vervoe’s Behavioral Science team to build a custom QA Engineer assessment combining technical questions with soft-skills analysis, refined through several rounds of feedback from the existing QA team. It mixes video or audio, multiple choice, and job simulation question types, and has since been extended to other technical roles, particularly software developers, with plans to roll it out to other departments including Marketing.

The results

Hiring for a role that previously took more than 20 hours of manual screening now surfaces top candidates automatically at the top of the funnel, which Talent Lead Gabriel Ranta describes as delivering an enormous return on investment from the streamlined recruitment process alone. Candidates also get a more engaging way to demonstrate their abilities than a traditional coding test.

• Time to hire fell from 70 to 49 days for technical non-developer roles.
• More than 1,000 recruiter hours saved in a year.
• One hire was made in 17 days, against a 50 day average.