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Alto is on a mission to be the world’s most patient-centric pharmacy. Its founders left Facebook in 2015 to apply their engineering experience to a more meaningful problem. They bought a brick and mortar pharmacy and started rebuilding it from the ground up—free delivery, an easy-to-use mobile app, internal pharmacy tools, and a platform to coordinate with physicians and insurance. Alto has served over 50,000 patients in the Bay Area and Southern California and saved patients over $10 million in medication costs.
Alto has the best problem a startup can have: Hospitals, doctors, and clinics are all waiting in line to work with them. But its team is faced with an ongoing need to grow quickly, scale operations, and bring on bright engineering talent to support both.
By early 2019, Alto’s tech team was 15 engineers. Leadership had hired their first head of talent, and they started revising their recruiting strategy, enhancing their interview process, and setting even more ambitious hiring goals—like doubling its engineering team by end of year.
Since 2017, Source Curated, part of the AngelList Recruit suite of hiring tools, has been part of that strategy. Seven hires later, AngelList continues to help Alto source and hire outstanding technical talent.
Full-stack generalists. Four-plus years of experience. The candidates Alto is searching for aren’t uncommon, but they are in high demand. Their approach: find qualified job-seekers who are interested in healthcare, and engaging them quickly.
When hiring with Source Curated, Alto’s team says they experience far less drop-off in candidate responsiveness than they’ve encountered on competitor platforms.
“I like the high-level overview of each candidates—what role they’re looking for, what industries they're interested in. That's extremely important for us in healthcare. Some people see the industry as an incredible opportunity for impact. Others just see red tape. Knowing who already have an interest in our industry lets us target the right candidates and save a lot of time.”
—Alesa Roti, Technical Recruiter
“Curated candidates are more senior than the candidates I see with competitors. They’re on the ball with interviewing, and they know what they’re looking for—likely to say this is a good opportunity or this is not for me. They don’t waste any time.“
“We tried outbound prospecting and cold emailing to reach potential candidates. We even tried LinkedIn direct messages, but there was not enough intent on the candidate side… with Wellfound we have candidates who have the intent and actually want to work at an early stage startup. They’re more aware of the risks and benefits.”
“What we’ve found through Curated is better candidates, faster sourcing, less headache, and overall better results. To sum it up, here at Trace, what we give our customers is time back; what Wellfound did for me as the hiring manager is much the same — it gave me time back. There’s so much noise on the other platforms, we didn’t find that on Wellfound.”
“My sourcer met with me, understood the job, screened every single candidate, and only sent me candidates that were worth considering. I was very picky, so they continued to work with me to refine the search. It was amazing service. Through that process we've got two viable candidates that we could extend offers to. We actually extended on this morning who's going to work out.“
