CEO Roundtable Talent and Compensation Insights Survey

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This quick survey is aimed at gathering insights on your business model, talent challenges, and compensation strategies. Your input will help us tailor the content for our CEO Roundtable, ensuring a discussion that's directly relevant to your experiences and needs.

What kind of business are you building?

A globally competitive multinational business

A regionally competitive Canadian business

A lifestyle business

A non-profit organization

not applicable

Other:

Required

What do you offer your customers?

Product(s)

Services

A blend of product(s) and services

How is your business financed? (Select all that apply)

Bootstrapped

Venture funded

Debt/Non-Dilutive funding

Publicly funded

Not applicable

Required

What keeps you up at night?

Hiring

Retention

Both

Neither

What types of positions are you recruiting for? (select all that apply)

Executive / Management

Functional Leadership / Middle Management

Individually contributing software/data engineers

Individually contributing hardware engineers

AI researchers/data scientists

Individually contributing product & design talent

Individually contributing infrastructure & technical operations talent (IT Ops, DevOps, SRE)

Other individually contributing R&D talent

Individually contributing Go-To-Market talent (sales, success, support, marketing)

Operations talent (finance, HR, legal, facilities)

Not applicable

Other:

Required

What personnel challenges are you facing? (select all that apply)

Insufficient volume of qualified candidates applying to our postings

Too small of a pool of talent to actively engage in outbound recruitment

Poor conversation and response rates in outbound recruitment efforts

Difficulty attracting senior talent

Candidates looking for a larger company/larger teams

Candidates unwilling to relocate as necessary

Candidates have unrealistic compensation expectations

Candidate attrition during the interview process

Successful candidates rejecting offers of employment

Candidates receiving and accepting offers from other employers

Candidates receiving and accepting counter-offers from their current employer

Candidates rejecting offers of employment for unknown reasons

Employee retention/churn

Required

Where are the majority of your successful candidates sourced from?
*

Referrals

Applications to your job postings

Internal outbound recruiting

Recruitment agencies

I dont know

Who is responsible for recruiting in your company? (Select all that apply)

Hiring managers

An internal talent person/team

External vendor(s)

A combination of internal and external talent people/teams and vendors

I dont know

Required

What recruitment tactics have you tried so far? (Select all that apply)
*

Investor network referrals

Personal network referrals

Employee referrals

Direct sourcing (reaching out to people you’d like to interview)

Internal talent recruiting teams/people

Recruitment agencies

Contractors

Outsourcing/offshoring

Job fairs/careers events

I dont know

Required

Where have you posted your jobs? (Select all that apply)

VIATEC job board

TechYYJ Slack

Other Slack communities

Company careers page

Indeed

Glassdoor

Monster 8

AngelList / Wellfound

Hackernews

Investor Job Boards

The Muse

The Pragmatic Engineer Talent Collective

remoteOK

Remote In Tech

Magnet

Dice

Other niche job boards

Other:

Required

What platforms have you used for outbound sourcing? (Select all that apply)

GitHub

Dice

Censia

Vanhack

Slack communities

Not applicable

Other:

Required

How would you describe your compensation strategy?

We compete with big tech across North America

We compete with comparable companies across North America

We compete with big tech across Canada

We compete with comparable companies across Canada

We compete with big tech in Victoria

We compete with comparable companies in Victoria

We’re working on it/it’s case-by-case

I dont know

Other:

Which best describes your total compensation philosophy?

We primarily compensate with cash

We primarily compensate with equity incentives

We blend cash compensation and equity incentives

We offer a lifestyle and balance that’s superior to our competitors

I dont know

What’s your colocation/WFH policy?

Remote - any timezone as long as they can make our meeting

Remote - timezone within 2-3 hours (as long as there’s overlap for most of the day)

Remote - same timezone

Hybrid - no office days specified (come in for important meetings)

Hybrid - 1-2 days in office

Hybrid - 3+ days in office

Fully in office

Not applicable

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