Compensation Transparency, Employer Branding, and Trends in Hiring & Talent Retention
This Much I Know - The Seedcamp PodcastShow Notes
In this Seedcamp Deep Dive, Carlos is joined by Virgile Raingeard, co-founder and CEO of Figures, a Seedcamp-backed company providing the only compensation benchmark product for European start-ups and scale-ups.
Carlos and Virgile discuss the current trends in hiring, talent retention and development, local vs. global pay, as well as compensation transparency.
Virgile emphasizes the factors that lead to more compensation transparency in the tech industry. Furthermore, he shares why early adopters have a first-mover advantage from an employer branding perspective.
Show notes: Virgile Raingeard - twitter.com/vrraingeard Carlos Espinal - twitter.com/cee
Figures - figures.hr Seedcamp - seedcamp.com
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