Changelog

Custom Questions – Admin Only Visibility

Custom application questions can now be marked as "Admin only." When enabled, responses to these questions are hidden from team members with the Member role – useful for sensitive information like salary expectations or background check consent. Admin-only responses are also excluded from Zapier triggers and webhooks.

Compensation Privacy Setting

You can now make compensation information visible only to admins on a per-job basis. When enabled, team members with the Member role won't see salary or wage details in the candidate profile.

Other improvements & fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate email messages when using bulk messaging

Swedish Added as an Option for Job Board Localization

Swedish has been added as a language option for job board localization. We are still taking requests for additional languages.

Added reCAPTCHA to Login Form

reCAPTCHA has been added to the Login and Sign-Up form to improve site security by protecting against spammers.

Other improvements & fixes

• Browsers now persist login via Magic Link.
• Salary inputs are now validated correctly across all browsers.
• A minor issue with existing Polymer users accepting an invitation to a new Organization was fixed

Improved Billing UI & UX

We have introduced several enhancements to the "Plan & billing" section, including the option to sign up for a monthly or annual plan. User experience improvements include:

• Your selected plan is now highlighted in the UI.
• Updating your plan in Polymer now opens the Stripe portal, allowing you to confirm all amounts and change your payment method if desired.
• You can now add a promo code yourself when checking out.
• The UI has been updated in "Plan & billing" to more prominently display any applied promo codes.
• You can now access your billing details and invoices even after canceling your Polymer plan.

Hiring Stage Message Automations

You can now configure message automations for each hiring stage, allowing a template-based email message to be triggered when a candidate is moved to that stage.

The basic setup involves selecting a message template for the automation and choosing whether to send the message "once" or "every time" a candidate enters a stage. Automations can be easily enabled, disabled, or edited for any hiring stage via the Automations tab in Job Setup.

Additionally, the user interface now includes an info box wherever you can move a candidate, informing you if an automation is active.

Application Question Answers to Review Kit

Application question answers submitted by candidates through the application form are now included in the Review Kit. This provides more information to those with the Reviewer role and ensures that candidate information is readily available during interviews or when writing up interview notes.

Disable 3rd Party Distribution for Individual Jobs

You can now opt individual jobs out of third-party distributions, such as LinkedIn and X Hiring, directly in Job Setup. This allows for more granular control over which job posts are shared.

LinkedIn Integration

A new LinkedIn integration is now available, allowing you to automatically post your Polymer job listings to the Jobs tab on your company's LinkedIn page. Once enabled, any updates or changes you make in Polymer will be reflected on LinkedIn, typically within a few hours, ensuring your job posts stay current.

This integration uses LinkedIn’s "Limited Listings," meaning you can post jobs for free, but you will not be able to promote these listings directly through LinkedIn. To enable this feature, head to the Integrations section in your Account Settings.

For detailed setup instructions, refer to our documentation.

X Hiring Integration

We have launched an integration with X Hiring beta, allowing you to post your jobs for free on X's platform and organically reach millions of relevant candidates.

For Verified Organizations on X, you can link jobs to your profile and feature roles by reaching out to X Hiring support. For non-Verified Organizations, your published Polymer job posts will automatically appear in X's job search but will not be connected to any specific profile.

For more details, see our documentation.

Select candidates for bulk actions

We improved bulk actions for candidates by adding ability to select or deselect candidates in a hiring stage before sending a bulk message, or bulk moving candidates to a different stage.

Candidate uploads

A new custom question type has been added that allows candidates to upload files to their applications. Supported file types include audio files, image files, excel/csv, word/pdf (document) and txt files.

Other improvements & fixes

• Added list-unsubscribed header to all emails to improve deliverability
• An issue where some incoming candidate messages were parsed incorrectly is fixed

Review Request

Review Requests allow hiring team members to request candidate reviews from any member of the organization with any user role. This will send an email to the organization email with a link directly to the review page for that candidate!

Any hiring team member can request a review via email address from someone who is not yet a member of the organization. By clicking on the review link in the email they will be added to the organization as an interviewer.

Interviewer Role

The interviewer role is geared towards individuals who don’t need or want to be added to a job’s hiring team, but will interview a candidate. This role allows individual candidate review requests to be sent to “interviewers” which will give them access to that candidates review kit page and nothing else. This allows them to easily submit reviews.

Other improvements & fixes

• Hiring Team Members are able to delete custom questions no matter their user role
• If the owner of an organization update’s their information, it will now be properly updated for Stripe/Billing (shows on the invoices and receipts)

Job board localization

We added the ability to select a locale for the language of the organization's Job Board. We started with Dutch (available now) and Swedish is in the pipeline. We are open to all customer requests for languages.

Other improvements & fixes

• If INR (Rupees) is chosen as the salary currency, the formatting will display in Indian Number Formatting on the job board
• Jobs are now ordered alphabetically within their Categories on an organization’s Job Board

Webhooks

You can now add a webhook URL endpoint that Polymer will POST to anytime a new job application is created. This allows you to build your own integrations that can react in real time whenever you receive a new job applicant.

To get started, visit the Polymer webhooks configuration page from the integrations tab within app settings and simply add the endpoint URL.

Other improvements

• Application question order is now preserved when a job is cloned

Embedded job board

Organizations can now display their job list on any website they administer by pasting a generated embed code in the desired location within a page's HTML. This functionality can be accessed from within job board settings found in app settings.

Application form reCAPTCHA

To head off any potential issues with bot applications, we have added Google's reCAPTCHA to the application process. This provides protection against spam applications while keeping the application process completely frictionless for legitimate applicants. Unless suspicious activity is detected, an applicant will not have to complete any additional verification.

Account deletion

Users can now choose to delete their account. This action can be performed from within the new management page within account settings. Deleting an account is a permanent action and cannot be undone. When a user deletes their account, they will immediately lose access to all Polymer organizations that they are currently a member of.

Other improvements

• Minor user experience improvements related to how login links are handled

Transfer organization ownership

We just shipped a streamlined ownership transfer feature in Polymer, allowing you to transfer organization ownership directly within the app. Previously this could only be done by contacting our support team.

This feature can be found on the "team" page within "app settings". Note that only current owners can initiate transfers.

Email designs

We've rolled out updated designs for all emails sent from the Polymer hiring app. This includes notification emails for events that occur within the app as well as those used for direct candidate communications.

Contact form

We've added an in-app contact form to make it easy to reach out to the Polymer team with any questions or feedback. It can be viewed by clicking "contact us" from the user dropdown in the top-right.

User account portal

Not long ago, we shipped the ability for a single user account to be used across multiple organizations. With this release, we're improving how you manage that account by moving all user account settings from the hiring app to a dedicated portal.

With this change, you'll have a convenient spot for making updates to your profile and other user preferences with the effects being applied across all organizations you are a part of.

Transactional email designs

We've made various layout and design improvements to the email templates that are used when you receive updates from hiring events that occur in Polymer.

Other fixes

• Fixed a minor issue where the close button would have to be clicked more than once if a user attempted to navigate to a settings page that is already being viewed.

Zapier integration

We've shipped a new Zapier integration that allows you to easily build automations that are triggered by events in Polymer.

For this initial release, three triggers are supported: when a job is published, when a new candidate application is received, and when a candidate is moved to the hired stage. We plan to continue adding support for additional triggers over time.

The Zapier integration can be configured within the Integrations section of Account Settings. Check out our documentation for a full overview of the setup process.

Bulk candidate import

Multiple candidates can now be added to a job at once via an uploaded CSV file. This enables you to easily import candidates that you may have collected outside of Polymer.

A bulk import can be initiated by clicking the "import candidates" option from the dropdown located in the top right when viewing a job. An interface will then be presented that provides formatting instructions, an example template, and a form field for uploading your file.

Discord community

We have set up a Discord server as a hub for the Polymer community. Through it, we hope to build a support network to help creators like you coordinate, share resources, and learn from each other. You can join and invite others using this link: https://discord.gg/MgQxHMYZFN

WWR post upgrades

When distributing a job post to We Work Remotely, you can now include optional upgrades to help your job advertizement stand out on their site. These upgrades can be configured and purchased from the We Work Remotely distribution page located within job settings.

Improved candidate export

The candidate export feature has been improved to include additional information when exporting candidates from a job. Previously, only contact information was exported, but with this update, resumes, responses to custom application questions, candidate source, hiring stage, and notes are now included in the generated CSV file.

Other fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause the WWR distribution form to become stuck in a loading state until refreshed if the user attempted a purchase without providing all required fields.

Custom application confirmation

We added the ability to automatically send a message to new candidates when an application is received. If enabled, your message will be sent instead of the default confirmation from Polymer. This can be configured from the automations tab within job settings.

Other improvements & fixes

• Performance improvements for job boards
• The keyboard shortcut to open candidate search has been changed from F to /.

Polymer

We have rebranded from Wrk to Polymer and have moved to a new domain, polymer.co. Any existing Wrk links, for both the hiring app and job boards, will simply forward to the new domain. Likewise, email conversations with current candidates will seamlessly transition to being powered by new Polymer email addresses.

Take a look at the full announcement to hear our thinking behind it and why we believe this new identity is a great fit for our product and our future.

Job sharing

A new interface has been added facilitate sharing job posts. It can be accessed from within the job settings screen on any published job. The job sharing modal allows you to quicky and easily generate posts on Twitter and LinkedIn. Additionally, you can create your own share links that enable you to track the source of any candidates that apply after using that link.

Candidate permalinks

We have added the ability to copy a permalink to a candidate. These links will always direct to a candidate profile within a job regardless of what stage they are currently in.

Other improvements & fixes

• Improved the URL redirect that occurs after a new user accepts an invite
• Improved the error screen that displays when a user attempts to view a job they do not have access to.
• Fixed an issue that occurred if a job board had no logo and was configured to only show a logo