Sixteen hours from first contact to signed offer. One hundred and five hires in ninety days. No process theatre.

Symphony, a technology company, added 105 people in the first quarter of 2026 using a hiring process that compressed the timeline to 16 hours from first conversation to signed offer. Co-founder Muamer Cisija described the approach to Forbes as eliminating "process theatre" — the redundant screening calls, panel interviews, and take-home assignments that test for proxies rather than signal. Instead, the company focused on curiosity, problem-solving ability, and a permanent internship pipeline that feeds qualified candidates into roles without restarting the funnel from zero each quarter. The result is a process that treats candidates' time as finite and their intelligence as the only variable that matters.