What are the qualities and traits of people we wish to attract? We have discussed this extensively, and this guest blog @ AceTheInterview captures everything we have been discussing internally. Here is an excerpt:
“…For me, a candidate’s attitude has to be: if there is something broken - we will fix it, if there is something we don’t know - we will figure it out, we will do whatever it takes to get the job done. My competitors may outsmart /outstrategize me, but they can never outwork me. There is just no excuse for being outworked, as that is one of the few thing you can control…”
Knowing and articulating what you want is half the problem, and finding such people is the other half. Ask any executive in the hi-tech industry, and the first problem they will talk about is hiring good and solid engineers. We are fortunate to be based out of Pune, which has a large pool of talent and is a very desirable place to live and work. Surely we need to compete for talent with the servicing majors like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Satyam and increasingly international servicing majors like Accenture and IBM, but we all know that is is more fun and rewarding being in a product driven company compared to a services company. Working at Mangospring is fun and rewarding because of the kind of technology you work on, the responsibilities that you hold, the roles that you perform and I haven’t even talked about the joys of working with a passionate product driven team. So, given all this, we like our chances in competing and attracting the best of the best.
Of course one should look at salary as one of the criteria when selecting a job, and startups like ours never flinch from paying the employees as per their qualifications and experience. And its not that startups don’t know where the next salary will come from. They are often run and managed by some very sucessful professionals and entrepnuers who have a vision, drive and have their funding lined up for years to come. So, the notion that job at a startup is risky, is probably one of the biggest myth out there. Really..take a moment and think about it…Of course, just like big companies, there are well managed startups and there are not so well managed startups and you do have to do your due-diligence but even a not so well managed startup will probably stakup higher then a very well managed large company.
So when startups like ours offer the right career path, a professionaly and personaly enriching experience, along with the salaries that match the industry’s best, we should be flooded with employment requests…right?. It baffles me that in this 21st century a whole bunch of intelligent and educated people still prefer “brands” to these things, and they believe that they want a brand on their resume. In reality, if you think about it, it’s the exact opposite - how does being one of the 10,000 recruits every year in a company make you more desirable?
The bottomline is that there are two ways to do work you love: (a) to make money, then work on what you love, or (b) to get a job where you get paid to work on stuff you love. At MangoSpring, we gurantee option (b).
So, if you have the passion, willingness to constantly learn, and the drive to grow and succeed, shoot us an email at careers at MangoSpring.com . We would love to hear from you, as we are always looking to hire people who are better than us. 
