Are Recruitment Referral Bonuses Worth The Effort?

Is $1500 enough to risk a friendship?

Robert Drury
Getting Started in Product
4 min readAug 2, 2022

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You know the situation.

Your employer is hiring and they aren’t getting the candidates they want, so HR send an email around to everyone which says:

“If you know anyone who is interested in a role with us then let us know and if they get hired you’ll receive a recruitment bounty of $XXXX.”

Do referral bonuses actually work?

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Robert Drury
Getting Started in Product

Helping people kick start their product management career with product coaching, job application prep, & resources at gettingstartedinproduct.substack.com