Startups & scaleups
How Everphone attracted qualified talent for international expansion
A 300-person Berlin tech company hired 70+ people in four months and made the publish-and-attribute layer of recruiting essentially invisible.
TL;DR
A 300-person Berlin tech company hired 70+ people in four months and made the publish-and-attribute layer of recruiting essentially invisible.
Everphone is a Berlin-based tech company in the device-as-a-service space — phones and laptops shipped to enterprise customers on a sustainable, circular model. Founded in 2016, the team scaled past 300 people with offices across Europe and the Americas, hiring continuously to support international expansion.
That kind of growth pace creates a specific problem: the publish-and-track layer of recruiting starts consuming the time the recruiting team should be spending on actual hiring conversations.
The Challenge
Three issues compounded as Everphone scaled internationally:
- Channel selection got harder by market. Each new country meant figuring out which job boards mattered locally — Germany worked one way, France another, the US different again.
- Quality versus speed pressure. International expansion needed both more applications and better applications. Without a single source of truth, the trade-off was visible only in retrospect.
- Recruiter workflow friction. With 15 people on the hiring team, posting and tracking jobs across multiple boards and an existing Greenhouse setup created an integration tax that everyone paid daily.
The Solution
Everphone connected Join to its existing Greenhouse account. Join handled the publish layer across multiple boards and languages; Greenhouse continued as the candidate-data source of record. From the recruiter’s side, the daily workflow was one tool: post the role in Join, review applications as they came in, and let the Greenhouse integration handle the system-of-record sync silently.
The combination collapsed the operational layer. As Moritz Henne summarised: “I don’t have to work very actively because Join delivers work in the background, so the application and candidate management process is not only fast but also of high quality.”
The Results
In a four-month window: 70+ new team members hired, 15 people across the hiring team working in one tool, and 12 concurrent open pipelines managed without the previous coordination overhead.
The point Everphone makes well: at scale, the recruiting platform’s job isn’t to be visible. It’s to be invisible — the publish-and-attribute plumbing that lets the people doing the hiring focus on the hiring.
