/hiring
Posts touching hiring.
7 posts
- February 28, 2026 4 min
What AI changes about engineering leadership
Code review matters more than code writing. Architectural taste matters more than implementation speed. Evaluating AI-generated code is the new critical skill.
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- January 5, 2026 5 min
The hardest conversation I had in 2025 was firing a senior engineer I had hired
He interviewed brilliantly but could not operate in a startup. Performance management is the most important and least taught leadership skill.
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- August 11, 2025 4 min
GPT-5 shipped and my team asked if we still need junior engineers
The answer is yes, but for reasons that forced us to articulate what junior engineers actually contribute beyond lines of code.
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- August 4, 2025 4 min
Why I stopped asking candidates to whiteboard and started asking them to review pull requests
Whiteboard coding measures performance under artificial stress. PR reviews measure what the job actually requires.
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- January 13, 2025 5 min
I mass-rejected 200 resumes and hired the person who asked the best questions in the interview
Our first structured hiring round attracted 200+ applications. The person we hired had a weaker resume than a dozen others but asked questions that revealed deep systems thinking.
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- November 18, 2024 5 min
Hiring engineer number three when you can barely keep engineer number one from burning out
I posted a job listing for our third engineer while privately wondering if our first hire was about to quit. What I got wrong about workload distribution.
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- July 24, 2024 5 min
Hiring our first engineer: the mass-interview process I built as a non-recruiter
No ATS, no recruiter, no playbook. I built the entire hiring pipeline from scratch and we interviewed 30 candidates to make one perfect hire.
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