<aside> 🔧 Maintained by: @Malcolm Burenstam Linder Page last reviewed October 21, 2025
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Alva exists to create a fair and efficient job market for all. We help companies redefine what makes a candidate “great” and escape the trap of conventional hiring, so that every individual has the chance to show their true potential and every organization can make better decisions.
We are building an iconic company that makes a dent in history — impacting millions of candidates and thousands of organizations worldwide. Achieving this requires us to challenge long-standing biases, question outdated practices, and set a new standard for how hiring is done.
This is an ambitious mission, and the moment to seize it is now. The market is shifting fast, AI is rewriting the rules, and competition is fierce. Most of all, we are fighting decades of ingrained beliefs about what “great” looks like in hiring. Fixing this drag on fairness and efficiency is why Alva exists.
And it will not be easy. The journey ahead will be Hard, Valuable, and Fun — hard because the problems we’re tackling matter, valuable because the impact is massive for our users and for us, and fun because building something extraordinary together is energizing and joyful.
High performance with a big heart
Our DNA is not changing. From the very beginning, we’ve been about a culture where ambition, quality, and hard work meet empathy, care, and fun. What is changing in Alva 2.0 is how we work together: a return to startup mode, with more speed, urgency, and commitment, so that this DNA can thrive and carry us to our mission.
How we will win
The only way we win is together. Our success depends entirely on the quality, ambition, and energy of our team. We need to be all in — caring deeply about the mission, about our users, and about the product and services we deliver. We need to move with urgency and speed, never settling, always raising the bar, and going after bold goals with full commitment.
We want everyone who works at Alva today to look back on this time as one of the most exciting, challenging, and formative experiences in our career.
A place where we tackle big, hairy problems with extraordinary people with a shared mission.
A place where we grow fast, push ourselves, and support each other.
Our values describe the behaviors and skills that make this possible. They are the foundation for how we build a strong team, how we collaborate, and how we achieve our mission. They are what we reward, what we expect of each other, and what make Alva a company where both people and ideas thrive.
We constantly raise the bar — and we do it with urgency. Pride in our work is the standard of quality, and speed is how we create impact. Raising the bar is not about doing everything at once — it’s about prioritising fiercely, experimenting bravely, and going all in on the things that matter most. If you’re proud of what you delivered, and it was fast enough to matter, that’s the bar we aim for.