Mapleway
How Mapleway's design team cut time to hire from 34 days to 16
A 60-person product studio replaced a shared spreadsheet and three Slack channels with one board per role.
16 days
Time to hire, down from 34
Industry
Product studio
Team size
60 people
We stopped chasing scorecards in Slack. Everyone looks at the same board, so a hiring decision takes a day instead of a week.
Carmen Ruiz
Head of Design
Before: one spreadsheet, three Slack channels
Mapleway hired eleven designers last year. Every candidate lived in a shared spreadsheet, feedback arrived in whichever Slack channel was open, and the recruiter spent Mondays asking interviewers for their notes.
The team knew their bar. What they lacked was a single place where everyone could see where each person stood.
After: one board per role
Each open role now has its own board. Interviewers score the same four areas on a 1 to 4 scale, and the verdict adds itself up. Debriefs start with the numbers and take fifteen minutes instead of an hour.
What changed first
Scheduling. Before Hirabel, booking a panel interview took four or five emails. Now the recruiter drags a slot onto the calendar and it snaps to a time Carmen and the engineering lead are both free.