RECRUITMENT

What I learnt… about interviewing people for jobs

Kristo Käärmann encourages interviewees to ask more questions during the process
Kristo Käärmann encourages interviewees to ask more questions during the process
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
The Times

Kristo Käärmann, 41, is the co-founder and chief executive of Wise, the stock market-listed London fintech valued at more than £3.8 billion. Originally known as Transferwise, the business moves about £8 billion in money a month between different currencies for 13 million retail and business customers, charging a fraction of the typical fees. It employs 3,500 people and Estonian-born Käärmann continues to interview key hires. The first in this two-part series appeared last weekhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-i-learnt-about-leading-by-doing-crdk32f2t

Interviewing is still quite a big part of what I do
We have 357 roles open today. I have just checked. We need to add a lot of people to the company to get all the things done that our customers wish we were doing.

Until we were 150 people, I