Should you work at Cutshort? Read this to find out!

Things have changed dramatically in last 2 decades.

In our parents’ generation, a job was just a way to earn a living.

But today’s professionals don’t just work for money, they also seek satisfaction, meaning and overall happiness in their life.

Opportunities and challenges today

In last 10 years, we all have seen:

• Older jobs are becoming irrelevant. Combined with fast changing business landscapes, job losses are becoming very common.
• New skills keep coming up and there is a constant need to upgrade.
• The number of years of experience you have doesn’t matter much. What matters is the skill set and your impact.
• The education system is still stuck in the past and failing to prepare people for the real professional world.

This is not to say that the changes in the professional world are bad. In fact, they are exciting!

• The opening of markets is opening more number and variety of jobs
• The globalization of talent means for the first time where you work is not dependent on where you live!
• Focus on skills vs years of experience means anyone can grow fast in their career

Our mission

If not solved properly, the real danger is that people will be working below their potential. And:

When people are working below their true potential or not working at all, it has far reaching negative impact on everything — economy, their personal life, health and happiness.

At Cutshort, we want to fix this. We want to help the millions of professionals choose and grow their careers to the highest potential.

How are we doing this?

We have been building a network of modern professionals who can connect with each other to grow their careers. Depending on their current needs they can tap into the network to:

• Figure out their career paths
• Learn and share
• Get and give mentorships
• Find collaborators and project members
• Find their next jobs
• Find their next coworkers and employees

We started connecting people with their next jobs in 2015. In this time, recruiters/hiring managers/founders from 14000+ companies, right from giants like Google to smaller companies with just 5 people, have used the platform to connect from a pool of 1,000,000+ professionals.

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Sounds interesting? Here is what you need to know about our company now.

Every company is built differently.

• Some are built just to maximize profits. Some to be scaled and “exited”. Some as a side project to keep the cash flow coming.
• Some hire thousands of employees and make a “profit” on them. They hire a lot of managers and define processes to keep the efficiency high.
• Some keep the “ownership” of the company limited to some people while some try to distribute it to more people and employees.

At Cutshort, we have thought hard about these things. And here are some decisions we have taken.

• Don’t just chase profits. Make a positive impact. If you combine it with business acumen, money will follow.
• Don’t hesitate to disrupt yourself. If you don’t, someone else will. It’s always day zero in the mind of your customer.
• Don’t hoard wealth. Share it with the employees and others who created it in the first place.
• Think about the long term. A company can make a lot of positive changes in the society apart from just making money. Go for that!

What kind of people thrive at Cutshort?

A typical company has thinkers (typically founders), leaders (“managers”) and executors (“sales”, “engineers”, “marketers” etc).

In a typical company, you can be one of these 3 roles and you’d be fine. However, at Cutshort we need you to be ALL of these to really thrive in your role.

This means you need to:

Be a strategic thinker

Always be asking —

Why you’re doing what you’re doing?

What’s the biggest impact you can bring to the lives of your customers

What’s the easiest/fastest way to bring that impact?

Thinkers at cutshort think from first principles, analyze the problem statement and then systematically come up with some simple solutions that can be validated easily.

Be an inspiring leader

Thinking of an idea is simple. Executing it yourself is a little harder, but you can still manage it.

Leading and inspiring others, however, is really hard.

Leaders at Cutshort don’t preach. They don’t “force”. They explain their thinking, follow through the actions and most importantly — genuinely care for the other team members.

This means

• They help others without expecting any credit
• They give feedback to pull someone back on track. Rather than waiting for them to get badly stuck.
• They fight for other people’s career growth and their salary hikes.

Be a smart, consistent and self managed executor

Execution is so so important. You can make the best strategy and lead people, but it’s only at the time of execution, the real value is created.

And it’s incredibly hard.

The best Cutshorters in our team execute with great discipline and responsibility. They know execution can be boring sometimes or they may feel distracted, but they still push since they know the importance of it.

This is a short version of some of the above points:

What else do we look for in the hiring process?

We look for these attributes across all the departments and team:

Strong interest and background in your chosen field

Regardless of the role you applies for, first we really want to understand your chosen career interest. And we expect you have a strong fundamental understanding of that area and should have made non-trivial investments in learning the same

Self learning capabilities

We all know the professional world moves very fast, each day new tools and technologies are built. A lot of time you will come acrossproblems you don’t have the answer to. Self-learning capabilities are superpowers in trying times.

Not knowing a skill/technology/tool is ok. But lack of curiosity/will to learn, is not.

A strong desire to be in top 1% of their trade

To succeed in our ambitious mission, we need as many strong performers who believe they can be the very best in their field and are constantly striving to improve fast.

Focus on merit and fair play

When they see smart people around them, a lot of people become insecure. They try to bring them down in many ways to keep themselves relevant.

At cutshort, when we smarter people around us, we feel delighted. We see a chance to learn and “level up”.

We know it’s not about “them” vs “us”. It’s about “us in today” vs “us in future”.

Preference to speak your mind honestly

When you have passionate ambitious smart brains looking for solutions. Disagreements are bound to occur. We appreciate everyone putting up their views with logical reasoning, irrespective of their designation. But once a decision is taken by the team, everyone needs to commit to making it successful.

What can you expect once you have joined

Trust and respect will be your currency

We are not just another startup. We like to work smart, hard and find time to enjoy.

We wrote about this on Twitter:

You will be in the driver’s seat

After you join, we will put you on an onboarding path.

However, while along this onboarding path, and after that, we expect you to be self motivated and set the pace for your own growth. Learn both horizontally and vertically. Whether it’s the data you need or the access to customers, you will have everything that you need to become more valuable.

You can move across different teams

As I mentioned at the start, the professionals today want to grow across many things. They may not want a linear carer path and may want to try something new as they go along.

At Cutshort, we have enabled such paths for our team members and have loved the results. The only pre-requisite — do the best in your primary area first, earn respect and trust and then gradually explore other areas you may get interested in over time.

Meet some successful cutshorters!

Here are just some of the career stories from our team in last 3–4 years.

1. Priyank Agrawal joined in a fresher in 2016 and grew up fast to lead the backend tech team with a good amount of equity ownership in the company. In 2020, his equity in Cutshort is valued in crores, some of which he also got in his bank account.
2. In 2017, Neha Soni left her job in a Boston based company. She started in marketing, did Customer Success and then eventually found her calling in Sales. Recently, she closed deals worth more than our entire monthly revenue in June’20. In just one single day!
3. In 2017, Anupran Trivedi left the startup he had founded and which had done more than 1.5cr of revenue and joined CutShort. He started as a Product Analyst, dabbled in SEO next, then moved to Customer Success & Sales. He grew on to enable a 10 people sales team and added scalability to the team processes. More importantly, he has picked up skills across Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and can solve any random business problem thrown at him without breaking a sweat.
4. Sweta Gupta started as a fresher in Sales in Dec 2019, moved to Customer Success 5 months later and now leads the entire function with poise.
5. Aditya Malte started as a fresher in Machine Learning in June 2020 and completely overhauled our Data Science initiatives to come up with industry first innovations such as https://medium.com/cutshort/just-launched-ai-that-finds-high-potential-candidates-like-a-human-recruiter-260329b627cb. In 2021 summer, he took a break to puruse his MS in Data Science from USC.
6. Adil Khan worked for 6 months as an intern in our business team. He learnd how to handle sales and got to see the business operations of a fast growing company. He recently joined Bain & Company as a consultant.
7. <This list will keep growing. Can it be you here? We’d love that!>

So, does this sound like you?

We are always hiring people who find this blog post interesting.

Check out our jobs here: https://cutshort.io/company/cutshort

If you don’t see a position, email us at hr@cutshort.io