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Here’s a hard truth most TA leaders don’t want to admit: your hiring process is screening for the wrong thing. Not skills. Not judgment. Not potential. It’s screening for the ability to interview well. And those two things have almost nothing to do with each other. We sat down with recruiting experts Cammas Freeman, Phil […]
When we opened our latest software engineer role, we had 100 applications within 24 hours. By the end of the first week, without running a single ad, we had 160 candidates in the pipeline. That’s a lot of signal to sort through. And it forced us to be honest about something every engineering leader eventually […]
AI didn’t just change how engineers build software. It changed what it means to hire one. The tools engineers use every day — AI coding assistants, prompt-driven debugging, multi-model workflows — are now fundamental to how modern development teams operate. According to our State of Tech Hiring 2026 Report, 82% of developers find generative AI […]
We spoke with Farhan Thawar, VP and Head of Engineering at Shopify, about why the company 10x’d its internship program, what AI-native hiring really looks like, and the three-part framework reshaping how technical talent gets evaluated. The conventional wisdom goes something like this: AI is coming for developers, and the first casualties will be the […]
AI interviewers are having a moment. Every vendor is selling the same dream: automated conversations, instant scoring, no more phone screens. Faster. Cheaper. Scalable. And if you’re a TA leader staring down a pipeline of 2,400 applicants for 12 open engineering roles, that pitch lands. Here’s the problem nobody’s saying out loud: AI interviewers aren’t […]
And Why That’s Not the End of Hiring, It’s the Beginning of Better Interviews Your latest candidate looks like a slam dunk. Their resume matches the job description perfectly. Their LinkedIn is polished, complete, and compelling. Every skill checks out. And yet, more often than teams want to admit, that “perfect” candidate doesn’t hold up […]
High volume hiring sounds like a good problem to have, right? The reality is, when technical recruiting teams are flooded with applications, resumes become harder to trust, recruiters have less time to evaluate candidates effectively, and engineering teams end up spending valuable interview time with people who are not actually qualified for the role. The […]
Generative AI hasn’t killed technical hiring. It just exposed which parts of it were already broken. Coding screens that test syntax recall and algorithm trivia? Those were always a weak signal. Now they’re basically noise. A well-prompted model breezes through them. If that’s still your bar, you’re filtering for the wrong thing. But here’s what […]
The narrative around AI and technical hiring has been loud, and often contradictory. Some voices predict hiring slowdowns. Others claim AI will replace engineers entirely. But what’s the reality? To answer that, we surveyed 650+ developers, recruiters, and hiring leaders worldwide about how AI is influencing work, skill demand, and hiring practices. The result is […]
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