Mar 10 · 9 min read · The first time I had to design an engineering hiring process from scratch, I had no HR team, no playbook, and a co-founder asking "how many rounds do we need?" Startups don't have the luxury of six-st
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Mar 5 · 8 min read · You write the job description. You screen the resumes. You design the assessment. You run the interview. You make the call. Somewhere in between, you also ship the product. If that sounds like your we
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Feb 26 · 7 min read · The first time I had to design a take-home assignment for engineers, I did what everyone does: I grabbed a generic coding challenge. Implement a cache. Parse this log file. Build a tiny REST API. It f
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Feb 24 · 7 min read · The first time I ran a system design interview, I walked out thinking we'd nailed it. The candidate drew boxes, mentioned load balancers and caches, and sounded like they'd read the same blog posts I
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Feb 14 · 7 min read · The first time I had to design an interview process, I treated "good decisions" as something I'd recognize when I saw it. I didn't. Candidates sounded confident, used the right jargon, and sometimes t
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Feb 3 · 6 min read · You sit down with a candidate, share a screen, and work through a problem together. They talk through their approach. You see how they react to a nudge, handle a wrong turn, and explain their reasonin
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