Case Study: Wolt achieves 15× headcount growth and faster hiring with SmartRecruiters

How Wolt Scaled its Workforce with Volume Hiring in SmartRecruiters

Wolt, the Helsinki‑based app and logistics platform, faced a major scaling challenge after a $160M funding round in 2019: grow headcount roughly 15× across Europe in three years. Their legacy ATS couldn’t handle group interview scheduling, self‑service rescheduling, or robust analytics, creating bottlenecks for hiring managers and recruiters as they raced to staff dozens of markets and operations.

By implementing SmartRecruiters, Wolt standardized collaborative hiring teams, enabled candidate self‑scheduling, integrated recruiting data with business reporting, and introduced recruitment marketing and AI refinements. The result: rapid scale from ~1,000 to over 6,000 employees, ~30,000 candidates interviewed, recruiting headcount grew (10→65), time‑to‑hire fell from 118 to 45 days, and the TA team now manages ~14,000 applications per month—helping position Wolt for its eventual DoorDash acquisition.

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Shaun Rudden

Head of Talent Excellence