The 2 a.m. AI interview is how companies stopped interviewing back
Last month I had a job interview at 2 a.m. The interviewer didn't blink, didn't nod, and didn't let me ask a single question back. Well, the room wa…
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Seven interview rounds is a confession that your bar is broken
If you have to go through seven interview rounds, it's not thorough process - it's a hostage situation. A company that needs seven conversations to…
IT Jobs in Nigeria in 2026: A Developer's Guide to the Market (via TalentExAfrica)
If you've spent time in Nigerian dev communities lately - Twitter/X threads, WhatsApp groups, local meetup Slacks - you've probably noticed the conv…
Contract engineer vs. full-time hire: the real cost math
When teams compare a contractor's monthly rate against a salary, the salary usually looks cheaper. That comparison is wrong on both sides, and since…
A Case of When the Hunter Becomes the Hunted
What if the biggest threat to your organisation doesn't break through the firewall? What if you hire them instead? That was the fascinating twist in…
Workday job boards have a JSON API too. It's just better hidden.
In the last post I listed six ATS platforms whose job boards are open JSON APIs — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee, SmartRecruiters. Th…
Six ATS platforms publish their job boards as open JSON. Here are the endpoints.
Most "job scraping" tutorials teach you to render a careers page in a headless browser and pick apart the HTML. For the majority of company career p…
The Timezone Gap Isn't a Bug, It's a Forcing Function
Here's a hard truth most engineering leaders don't say out loud: your team's speed depends way too much on people being in the same room at the same…
The Staff engineer with 4 years of experience is a hiring problem we made
A hiring manager sparked outrage when they revealed that they automatically reject candidates with Staff or Principal titles who only have 3-4 years…
Stop Using Live Whiteboard Interviews to Hire Remote Developers
If you've been hired for a remote engineering role recently, you've probably run into this problem: the candidate who aced your technical interview…
Interviewing off leetcode you already memorized isn't cheating, it's the job
Someone was accused of cheating because they were able to solve a difficult problem very quickly. Not for playing with AI. Not for copying from a sc…
Hire a Shopify developer: what to ask before you sign anything
Hiring a Shopify developer is not a single decision — it's at least three decisions disguised as one. Do you need a developer at all, or will a well…
How to make contract engineers actually work: lessons from the other side
We place contract engineers into teams across North America and Europe, which means we've watched the same engagement succeed at one company and sta…
What Actually Separates a Good Developer Hire From a Bad One published: true
Most engineering teams have a hiring process. Far fewer have a hiring philosophy . That distinction matters more than it sounds. A process tells you…
Hiring Your First Developer: 5 Questions That Filter Out 80%
Hiring your first developer is the most expensive decision a non-technical founder makes blind. Not because the salary is large — because you have n…
How to Pass the Technical Interview: A Practical Guide for Arab Developers
Originally published on the Talents-OS blog . Disclosure: I work on Talents-OS. TL;DR: A practical preparation plan for technical interviews: interv…
Beyond Toy Demos: Deploying AI Agents in Production
Most developers have built an AI agent demo using LangChain or LlamaIndex. It takes less than fifty lines of Python to get a chat interface that que…
How to Deploy Production AI Agents That Pay For Themselves
Building a proof of concept with LangChain or LlamaIndex takes an afternoon. But there is a massive gulf between a terminal-based demo and a product…
Tech Hiring Rebounds: Job Postings Reach Three-Year High
What Happened In a significant development for the global labor market, the technology sector has officially entered a period of renewed expansion.…
Want to Volunteer with me as a Full-Stack Developer? Join me at CALEC!
Hey everyone! I don't want to steal @hemapriya_kanagala series. This is more of a DEV opportunity breaking news. I am currently volunteering at CALE…
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 other…
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…
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 tha…
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 Sanit…
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 prete…
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 trigge…
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…
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, creati…
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 mont…