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Building a Talent Pipeline That Doesn't Depend on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a single point of failure for most recruiting teams. Here's how to diversify your sourcing with GitHub, communities, referrals, and independent data.
How to Evaluate Senior Engineers Without Leetcode
Leetcode interviews are bad for senior hires. System design, code review exercises, and project deep-dives test what senior engineers actually do.
What Recruiters Get Wrong About GitHub Profiles
Most recruiters treat GitHub like a checkbox. Here's what actually matters when you're looking at a candidate's profile, and what you should stop paying attention to.
Why Traditional Recruiting Tools Fail for Engineering Hiring
LinkedIn Recruiter was built for all professionals. Here's why that's a problem when you're hiring engineers, and what a purpose-built alternative looks like.
The Real Cost of a Bad Engineering Hire
A bad engineering hire costs way more than their salary. Team morale, code debt, delayed roadmaps, and the compounding cost of doing it all over again.
The Rise of AI in Recruiting: What Works and What's Hype
Every recruiting tool claims AI. Most of it is keyword matching with a chatbot. Here's what AI actually does well in recruiting and where it fails.
Remote Hiring: How to Build Engineering Teams Across Time Zones
The 4-hour overlap rule, async-first communication, and how to source globally without chaos. A practical playbook for distributed engineering teams.
Salary Transparency Is Changing Tech Recruiting Forever
Pay transparency laws are spreading fast. Having salary data upfront is now table stakes. Companies that hide comp are losing candidates.
Why Your Best Candidates Ghost You (And How to Fix It)
40-50% of candidates vanish during the hiring process. It's not random. Here's what causes it at each stage and how to fix it with data.
5 Metrics That Actually Predict Engineering Hiring Success
Time-to-fill is a garbage metric. Source quality, passthrough rates, offer acceptance, retention, and hiring manager satisfaction actually matter.
The Engineer's Guide to Getting Recruited (Without the Spam)
Written for engineers, not recruiters. How the recruiting pipeline works from the other side, what signals make you visible, and how to control your inbound.
Boolean Search Is Dead. Here's What Replaces It
Recruiters still doing AND/OR/NOT queries are missing 60% of qualified candidates. Natural language search finds meaning, not just keywords.
How to Write Engineering Job Posts That Actually Work
Most job posts actively repel the engineers you want. No more rockstar ninjas. Here's what actually makes senior engineers click apply.