Northwind, a 600-person fintech, faced the classic scaling dilemma: hire faster, or hire well.
The starting point
Average time-to-hire was 47 days. Interviewer load was uneven, and offer-accept rates were slipping.
What changed
They moved to a single structured loop per role family, adopted Hire-a-Mind for interview intelligence, and ran weekly 30-minute calibration sessions.
The results
Time-to-hire dropped to 27 days, offer acceptance climbed 14 points, and quality-of-hire scores at 6 months improved across every level.