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Thanks for your feedback. This interview happened a while ago and while we've substantially increased our team size and improved our screening methods since, we will definitely learn from your comments.
The first thing we care about in a candidate other than his/her ability to excel at what they do is fit with our culture. It’s hard to test for cultural fit so we use questions, computerized testing and other less obvious methods. This might, sometimes, sound a bit fluffy but hiring someone who would be a bad cultural fit for us is too risky. We are not looking for "brilliant jerks."
We are looking for really smart and passionate individuals who want to work in a field that is very difficult to navigate - the US healthcare system. In the last year, we have brought on board a very strong team of NLP and ML experts and given them complete autonomy to innovate. We intend to do the same with the next 10 - 12 top engineers and product people that we will hire in 2016.
Lastly, like other companies, we have mascots, quirks and games (e.g. we film comic skits, go bowling, play Jenga, etc.) - we are not sure it qualifies as a “cult” but it's definitely a lot of fun and a great opportunity to unwind.