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Engineering hiring
A serious hiring process maximizes decision signal while respecting the candidate cost required to produce it.
Writing on senior hiring economics, interview and assessment design, AI-era judgment, candidate cost, and the difference between a demanding process and an unbounded one.
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An interview that rewards memory is testing the skill AI is making cheaper.
When AI writes half the merged code, the useful interview signal shifts from recalling patterns to noticing when the machine is confidently wrong.
Engineering leadershipThe best hire is not always someone you can manage easily. Sometimes it is someone you would be willing to report to.
Strong leaders create leverage by hiring near-peers who turn direction into daily operating decisions, instead of task-takers who route every decision back through you. A near-peer multiplies judgment; a task-taker multiplies coordination. Hire only for delegation and you become the ceiling on everything the team can do.
Engineering Leadership