Why Hire For Values And Not For Skills, with Melissa Ng

Remote Work

In this episode, we interviewed Melissa Ng. She is a Digital Nomad, Product UX designer, and Entrepreneur. She is the founder of the location-independent UX design studio, Melewi (@melewi). Melewi designs UX products for big companies such as McDonald's, Samsung, Visa, Citibank, etc. Today, Melewi is formed by a team of 8 employees spread all across 7 different countries. In this episode we talked to Melissa about, her decision to go remote, psychology & isolation, hiring for culture, preferred toolset, lessons learned, and advice for founders. Show highlights? Melissa has built a remote team that shares similar values. It is so much easier to work with a team that shares values and culture. From the very beginning, Melissa has been very protective in order to maintain and grow their amazing culture. The candidates don’t have to be extremely skilled at what they do; they only need to be a cultural fit. Visit us at https://trackly.com/