New Delhi: Easemyexpo founder, Vikramaditya Shukla, a startup in Bengaluru, which is now known for ditching the resumes and structured interviews when it comes to hiring people for their startup. Rather than, he relies on the conversations that are instinct-led and aims for high agency and energy over experience.
This approach has recently sparked debate on the internet. The founder has shared a post on X, in which he wrote that he spends the first 10-15 minutes of every interview having an unstructured conversation with the candidates, with no preset questions or competency frameworks.
He always relies on instinct to assess whether their energy fits the company and if they will demonstrate high agency. The founder then skips formal credentials entirely, prioritizing attitude over traditional skills. If any candidate’s energy aligns with the team’s, he will hire that candidate on the spot.
This tweet has gone viral on the internet, with many users now questioning the scalability, lack of objectivity, and fairness of ignoring professional experience. And other people liked his approach and pointed out that it was a step toward judging personality and cultural fit, especially in fast-paced startup settings.
However, several users commented like someone wrote, “I really like the approach that makes you actually figure out how the person is and not build some assumptions along the interview and reject them.” Some wrote, “How do you filter from the initial pool of any of the applicants to move forward to an interview without any resume?”
This tweet is now the part of larger trend in which the Bengaluru startups try out unusual hiring methods to find passionate workers, which are often because of the traditional hiring practices are toxic and too strict.
