People & Hiring

The People & Hiring pillar tells you who works there, who is joining or leaving, and what hiring patterns imply about strategic direction. Hiring signals are often the earliest indicator of a move, appearing months before any public announcement. The People & Hiring pillar has five sub-tabs: Overview, Employee sentiment, Active hiring, Leadership, and Departures.

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What it watches

• Hiring velocity: how many roles are posted, how fast the count changes, and posting cadence
• Functions and seniority: which departments are growing and at what level (IC vs management vs executive)
• Leadership moves: C-suite and VP-level hires, departures, and organizational restructuring
• Key personnel changes: notable individual moves with context on impact and replacement status
• Team growth patterns: headcount trends over time, department-level shifts, and acceleration signals
• Employee sentiment: Glassdoor ratings, Blind mentions, burnout signals, and internal morale indicators

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Sub-tabs

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Overview

A high-level summary of team composition, headcount trends, hiring velocity across all departments, and key signals surfaced this period.

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Employee sentiment

Shows Glassdoor and Blind ratings, CEO approval, recommendation rates, review volume, and sentiment signals including burnout warnings. Sub-ratings are compared to industry averages.

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Active hiring

Shows open roles by department, posting velocity, seniority distribution, and hiring pattern signals. A sudden cluster of roles in a new department is one of the earliest indicators of a strategic bet.

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Leadership

Tracks C-suite and VP-level changes, new executive hires, and organizational structure. New leadership often signals a direction change within 3-6 months.

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Departures

Detects executive and key personnel departures with context on replacement status. An unfilled leadership gap lasting weeks is a meaningful signal about organizational health and priorities.

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Example Intel

• First VP Customer Success hire plus cluster of enterprise sales roles, indicating enterprise expansion is imminent (magnitude: High)
• CTO departed with no replacement posted for three weeks, indicating a leadership gap (magnitude: High)
• Engineering hiring surged from 5 open roles to 19 in two weeks, signaling major product investment (magnitude: Medium)
• Glassdoor rating dropped from 4.2 to 3.6 over three months, pointing to internal morale issues (magnitude: Medium)
• New AI/ML team formed with six simultaneous senior hires (magnitude: High)

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What is not in this pillar

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What’s next