The three questions
30 minutes, on your own time
Submitted by email. Written, voice note or video, whichever you're better at.
Careers at Equity House
A company that fixes careers should be good at giving one.
So here's ours, in full. No CV. The salary is printed on the role. So is the stuff we're bad at.
Why this page looks different
You shouldn't have to guess your way into a job.
We spend every day telling young people the career world is broken. Then most companies that say that hire exactly like everyone else, a CV, a vague salary, three rounds of interviews and silence. We'd be taking the mickey.
So this page is the whole thing. What we pay. What we ask. What happens after you apply. What's genuinely hard about working here. That's the entire point of the company.
“I grew up without a single person who could tell me how work really worked. The least we can do is not make people guess their way into working here.”
We don't take CVs
A CV is mostly a record of who you already knew.
Seventy per cent of roles are still filled through networks most people can't reach. If we screen on that, we hire the people who already had a head start, and then write posts about social mobility. So we don't ask for one. No cover letter either.
We never ask for your current salary, your degree classification, or where you went to school.
Everyone answers the same three questions. Same questions for every role, every applicant, every time.
- What's a piece of work you've done that you'd defend in a room full of people who disagreed with you?
- Something you believe about work, money or young people that most people in this industry get wrong.
- What would you do in your first month here?
Thirty minutes, honestly. Written, voice note or video, whichever you're better at. We're reading for how you think, not how well you've been coached.
The process, start to finish
Every stage listed, so you always know where you are.
You hear back
Within 10 working days
Everyone gets a real reply with a real reason. Not "we've decided to progress other candidates", an actual sentence about your actual application. If we've gone quiet past ten days, email us and hold us to it.
A conversation
45 minutes, video
You get the questions 48 hours in advance. We're not testing whether you're quick on your feet, we're testing whether you're any good at the job. Half the time is yours to ask us anything.
A paid piece of real work
2–3 hours, paid
An actual live problem we're working on, not a fictional case study. You're paid whether we hire you or not, and the work stays yours if we don't.
A day in the house
Our London studio
Meet the team, sit in on a shoot or a build, and grill anyone in the building without us in the room. If you decide it's not for you on that day, you've still had a good day and we've still learned something.
The offer
Within 48 hours of your day
The number will be the number published on the role. No games.
The pay
The band on the role is the real band, not the one we open at.
We don't negotiate. Not because we're tight because negotiation quietly pays the most confident person the most money, and confidence is largely a function of who raised you. Everyone at the same level here is paid the same, and everyone can see the bands.
Pay is reviewed for the whole team at once, against published criteria. You'll never have to build a case, catch someone in a good mood, or bring in an outside offer to get paid properly.
If you spot a market reason our band is wrong, tell us and we'll change it for everyone.
The deal
What you get, beyond the number.
38 days off
Not unlimited: unlimited holiday is a policy where nobody takes any. Thirty-eight actual days, and we check you've taken them.
Summer Fridays
Off through the summer months.
Winter Mondays
Off through the darkest months of the year. They're hard enough already.
Loyalty bonus
It grows the longer you stay. Because the only way to get a pay rise shouldn't be to leave.
A mentor who isn't your manager
We built a mentoring platform. It'd be strange not to use it.
Kit, pension and learning budget
The practical stuff, published in full on every role before you apply.
The honest column
What's actually hard about working here.
Every careers page lists the perks. Here's the other column, so you can make a proper decision.
We're not investor-backed, on purpose
The house is funded through commercial partnerships and media, not a raise. That keeps us independent all the way to a billion, but budgets get earned, not allocated. If you need a big war chest to do your best work, you'll find this frustrating.
The team is small and the remit is enormous
Four brands, a production studio and a nine-point public pledge. There is usually nobody to hand it to. People who like clean job descriptions don't tend to last.
We publish our promises
Nine pledges with public numbers attached. That's brilliant for accountability and genuinely stressful when a number isn't moving.
We're in the studio most of the week
We make things: shows, shoots, product. Some of that doesn't work over video. If you want fully remote, we're not it.
The mission is one billion people
Some weeks that's the most energising thing you've ever worked on. Some weeks it feels absurd. Both are normal.
Our pledge to every applicant
We ask a lot of the companies we call good employers. Same rules apply here.
- You'll never need a CV to be considered.
- You'll always know the salary before you apply.
- You'll always get a real reply with a real reason, within 10 working days.
- You'll never do unpaid work for us.
- You'll always know exactly what stage you're at and what's next.
Break one of these and we'll owe you an explanation. contact@equityhouse.io
Open roles
Nothing open right now, tell us anyway.
We hire ahead of roles more often than we advertise them, and the best applications we've had came before the job existed. Answer the same three questions and tell us what you'd build here. If it's a real fit, we'll make room. If it isn't, you'll still get a proper reply.