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Hiring
How companies structure, run, and evaluate their hiring.
Konnect Benchmarks publishes original research based on anonymous insights from hiring managers and professionals — freely available to everyone.
Current benchmark
An anonymous look at how early-stage companies hire in 2026 — process, expectations, and where the gaps live.
How companies structure, run, and evaluate their hiring.
Sourcing, outreach, and the shape of modern recruiting.
How professionals experience — and judge — hiring today.
What people expect from work, teams, and culture in 2026.
Hiring decisions affect millions of people every year. Yet surprisingly little original data exists about how companies hire and how professionals experience the hiring process.
Konnect Benchmarks collects anonymous insights to create freely available benchmark reports — for hiring teams, for candidates, for anyone thinking seriously about work.
The first Konnect benchmark. Focused on the realities of hiring in early-stage companies and what candidates actually experience along the way.
Research focuses
Hiring managers and professionals share what they see.
Responses are cleaned, cross-checked, and interpreted.
Findings are written up as a clear, cited publication.
Reports are free — no gate, no lead form.
Konnect Benchmarks is an independent research initiative by Konnect. Our mission is to make hiring more transparent through original research and openly accessible benchmark reports.
We don't sell software from this page. We publish what we learn — so hiring teams, candidates, and researchers can all work from the same data.
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