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Why AI Video Interviews Beat Resume Screening for Technical Roles

A resume tells you what someone wrote. An interview tells you how they think. Most technical hiring still starts with the resume. A recruiter spends…

Django vs FastAPI: Which Python Developer Should You Hire?

Django or FastAPI? Hiring managers ask this before they have written a single job description, and the honest answer is that the framework matters l…

Decoding recruiter silence

Applying for jobs often means navigating a void of information. The application goes out, and then... silence. This quiet can be frustrating, leadin…

I built an entire enterprise platform, from scratch, alone - now I'm growing it

Hi All, I worked for years in Corporate America as a 9 to 5 cubicle monkey. I saw how much revenue a lot of these big enterprises were racking in. A…

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Hiring managers skim in six seconds, then reread

Why the first glance matters Hiring managers spend only a handful of seconds on any new application. In that fleeting moment they are looking for a…

AI Jobs in India: LinkedIn's CEO Names the 51% Boom

Verdict: the AI jobs boom in India is real and quantified — AI engineering roles are growing 51% year-on-year on LinkedIn platform data, the stronge…

Addressing Unprofessional Interview Behavior at FAANG: Strategies for a Fairer Hiring Process

Introduction: The Dark Side of FAANG Interviews As an insider at a FAANG company, I have witnessed a pervasive issue that undermines the integrity o…

The Hiring App We Actually Need: 12 Experts Help Design a More Seamless Way to Hire

Hiring software was supposed to make recruitment easier. Instead, employers now juggle applicant tracking systems, job boards, assessments, calendar…

Devs are inspecting Greenhouse payloads to find hidden salary caps

Next time a job portal asks for your "desired salary," just open your DevTools and you might find the answer sitting right in the payload. Recently,…

You inherited a product: the code audit before you continue

Inheriting a product means being left in charge of software somebody else built: the developer moved on, the agency's contract ended, or the code pa…

What is a product engineer, and how is that different from a programmer?

A product engineer is the person responsible for making your digital product work and solve what your business needs, not just for writing the code…

The Staff IC now out-earns the manager and it's not close

For the last twenty years, the advice was pretty straightforward. If you want to make more money, get off the keyboard and start managing people. Th…

What an Interview Tests Is Quietly Changing

For about fifteen years, the way you proved you could do this job was to produce something. Write the function on the whiteboard. Take the exercise…

AI Interviews Will Lose You the Good Candidates

The candidates you most want to hire are the ones most likely to abandon an AI interview halfway through. That is the whole problem, and it is worth…

AI Is Screening Your CV — and It Has a Bias Problem

Somewhere between clicking “submit” on a job application and hearing anything back, a decision is increasingly made without a person in the room. A…

Hiring Is a Black Box on Both Ends

I've been on both ends of the same black box this year. On one end: a veteran software engineer (6 years, full-stack, AI-native workflow) running an…

Don't Hire a Prompt Engineer. Hire Someone Who Owns the Process

If you run a business and you are thinking about hiring a prompt engineer, stop. The skill you are trying to buy is not writing clever instructions…

Whiteboard interviews died the day AI could solve them live

The whiteboard interview went away not because it was inhumane, but because it lost out to a bot that could flicker faster than you could squeak the…

How to Hire Ukrainian Developers Without Wasting Your Budget

Everyone talks about rates. Nobody talks about the $3,000/month you burn when there's no one to review the code. Somewhere between "we need to ship…

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…

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…