Every Interview Has Two Stories. We Hear Only One
We'll get back to you. It's a sentence almost every job seeker has heard. For some, those words become the beginning of a new career. For many others,…
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How to Actually Evaluate an AI Engineer in 2026 (7-Point Framework)
The signals that mattered when you hired ML engineers in 2022 barely predict who ships reliable AI systems in 2026. "Trained a model on Kaggle" and "k…
The Countdown Begins: Preparing for My Next Chapter in Tech!
The offer is signed, the dates are set, and the countdown to my first official tech role is officially on! 🎓 I am incredibly excited to announce that …
How to vet a senior Sanity CMS developer: a practical buyer's guide
Knowing how to vet a senior Sanity CMS developer is harder than it sounds. The title 'senior' is self-applied on most freelance platforms, and Sanity'…
You Don't Need a Full-Time Dev. You Need the Right Dev, Part of the Time
There's a quiet shift happening in how companies build software. It doesn't involve another JS framework, a new cloud provider, or an AI agent pretend…
I Processed 500,000 Job Applications With AI. Here Is What the Data Actually Shows.
Full Transparency Disclaimer: I am the founder of Jobloo. After testing tools like LazyApply and Sonara and watching their browser extensions trigger …
Your first SaaS hire probably shouldn't be an engineer
Cross-posted from noflattery.com/decide — where I ran this exact question through a council of four different frontier models and let them argue it ou…
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient
While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.
Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating…
How to write a project brief that actually helps you hire a Next.js developer
Writing a good brief before you hire a Next.js developer is the single thing that separates projects that land on time from ones that drift for months…
The “High Package New Hire” Reality Nobody Talks About 💼⚠️
Every time layoffs happen or salary discussions start, I see one common statement: “New hires are getting 50–100% more salary than existing employees.…
Why Your AI Engineer Hire Costs 56% More Than You Budgeted
The Budget You Approved Isn't the Budget You'll Pay You approved $180K for a senior AI engineer. Eighteen months later, you've spent $282K and you're …
Hiring Tip: Pair Program on Open Source Bugs
Hiring Tip: Pair Program on Open Source Bugs to Ship Faster We recently watched a junior engineer spend three weeks reading a tutorial series before t…
We're Hiring a Lead Full Stack Developer at Topflight Apps — Remote Contract
Hey Dev.to community — we're Topflight Apps, a US healthcare & fintech software agency based in California. We've been building for 8 years and we…
How We Hire for the 20% AI Can't Do (And Why We Stopped Asking Candidates to Code From Scratch)
A few weeks ago I published a piece called "AI Agents Are Great at 80% of Our Code. The Other 20% Is Why We Still Need Seniors." It got 25 reactions a…
The Case for a Dedicated Reliability Engineer
Many engineering teams treat reliability as 'everyone's responsibility.' In practice, that means it's nobody's responsibility. Here's why you need som…
Senior developer" after 3 years is title laundering
Startups hand out senior titles like candy. The industry pays the price. I have been doing interviews for about a year now, and I cannot escape this p…
Data Scientist & AI Engineer — Open to Full-Time Opportunities
Hey Dev.to the community, I'm Ashwin Gururaj — a Data Scientist & AI Engineer based in Melbourne, Australia, currently open to full-time, contract…
Looking for a Founding Engineer
Looking for a Founding Engineer to join me in building an AI startup in the finance space. I’m building TaxCopilot focused on AI systems and workflow …
Hiring engineers in the age of AI
Your engineering interview loop was designed for a world where the bottleneck was writing code. The best engineers in 2026 are not the fastest coders …
Hire a Sanity developer vs agency: five honest trade-offs
When a founder asks me whether to hire a Sanity developer directly or go through an agency, I never give the same answer twice. The right choice depen…
Staff Augmentation vs Freelancers vs In-House: What Actually Works in 2026
Most companies choose a hiring model the wrong way. They look at the hourly rate. They pick the one that looks cheapest. They start building. Six mont…
How to Vet AI Developers in 2026: Questions That Catch Fakes Before They Cost You $60,000
A B2B SaaS founder spent four months and $60,000 with an AI developer they found through a popular talent platform. The system was "in production." Cl…
We're hiring a DevOps Content Engineer – Remote LATAM
We're building the agentic OS for DevOps — AI agents that make cloud environments self-building, self-healing, and self-optimizing. We're looking for …
AI Product Development Is Easier. Hiring Great Engineers Is Not
AI has made the first version of almost everything easier to ship. A founder can test a landing page faster. A product manager can mock a workflow bef…
Data Analyst vs Data Scientist 2026: Skills, Salary, Hiring
Are Data Analyst and Data Scientist Still the Same Job in 2026? From the outside, the two roles look interchangeable: similar posting volumes, similar…
I Built the Best Free Portfolio Builder
I kept meeting developers who were getting passed over for jobs they were clearly qualified for. Strong GitHub profiles. Real shipped projects. Solid …
Job Post: Full-Stack Software Engineer
Full-Stack Software Engineer Location: Full-time, In-Person, On-Site in Chattanooga, TN (Relocation Available / Flexible for Travel) Compensation: $10…
ChaoSim – A hiring sim for devs who hate LeetCode and resumes
You know you can do the job. You've debugged production at 3am. You shipped features solo. But you keep getting filtered out by resume keywords, take-…
I Built a Job Hunt System for Developers. Here is Why You Need It.
Job hunting as a developer is broken. You send 50 applications. You hear back from 2. One is a rejection. The other is a ghost. This happened to me ov…