Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Healthcare & Life Sciences

WEBSITE

http://www.hilo.com/

About the company

Aktiia, now trading under Hilo, builds cuffless, wearable blood pressure monitoring technology aimed at continuous, everyday measurement rather than occasional cuff checks. The company positions the product as medical-grade and clinically validated, pairing a wrist-worn device with an app that turns readings into understandable insights. The company operates in regulated health tech, spanning hardware, software, data science, and clinical work. Public updates also point to expansion efforts, including a push toward the US market.

Locations and presence

The company is headquartered in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Hiring and team presence appear distributed across Europe, with some roles listed as remote or multi-country.

Palpable Score

34.4

/ 100

Aktiia has very limited visible early-career access right now because the live openings skew heavily senior and executive. Candidate experience signals are mixed, with repeated complaints about process clarity and salary transparency, and there is not enough public evidence on junior progression to lift the score.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

6.0

/ 20

The company’s live openings are dominated by senior leadership roles such as VP positions and Chief Medical Officer, which blocks most 0–3 year candidates at the entry point.
Aktiia does not show junior-labelled roles (Junior, Associate, Graduate, Intern) in the current public vacancies list.
The company has a visible hiring channel, but the current role mix suggests early-career access is occasional rather than recurring.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

7.0

/ 20

The company has public interview reports describing long, multi-round processes with unclear direction and weak communication.
Aktiia has at least one public interview report describing ghosting after an initial conversation, which is particularly punishing for first-time job seekers.
The company rarely shares salary information upfront in public role pages, which makes the process feel higher-risk for early-career applicants.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

6.7

/ 20

The company’s current open roles are senior enough that the listings focus on ownership and delivery rather than coaching, onboarding, or ramp plans.
Aktiia has employee feedback mentioning strong colleagues and supportive people, but that is not tied to a repeatable early-career learning setup like mentoring or pairing.
The company does not publish a consistent early-career support model (structured onboarding, feedback cadence, development plans) that a junior hire could rely on before joining.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

5.7

/ 20

The company does not consistently publish salary ranges in public job ads, which caps confidence on pay fairness.
Aktiia has public candidate feedback calling out missing salary information as a red flag during the hiring process.
The company has limited publicly available detail on benefits, equity explanations for juniors, or other stability signals that matter early in a career.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.0

/ 20

The company has a small but meaningful set of employee reviews with an overall positive tilt, suggesting some people would recommend the workplace.
Aktiia also has at least one very negative recent review that flags ambiguity and weak structure, which can stall early-career growth even when the mission is strong.
The company does not publish early-career outcomes like intern-to-perm conversion, junior-to-mid promotion examples, or retention over 12–24 months, so progression cannot be validated.