DEDaniel Engelhardtinassessory.app·Apr 28 · 8 min readVibe Coding Changed How You Should Hire Engineers in 2026Vibe coding is the most interesting thing to happen to engineering hiring in years - not because it changed what engineers do, but because it exposed what our hiring processes were actually measuring.00
DEDaniel Engelhardtinassessory.app·Apr 7 · 9 min readHow to Evaluate Developers When You're Not TechnicalIf you are wondering how to evaluate developers as a non-technical founder, you are not alone - and you are not at a disadvantage. You built the company. You closed customers. You probably made the pr00
DEDaniel Engelhardtinassessory.app·Mar 31 · 9 min readHow to Screen Engineering Candidates When Half the Resumes Are AI-GeneratedThe resumes look great. That's the problem. Polished summaries, quantified achievements, perfect keyword density. You're reading thirty applications for a senior backend role and they all sound like t00
DEDaniel Engelhardtinassessory.app·Mar 24 · 9 min readHow to Hire a Founding Engineer: What to Test That's Different From a Normal Senior HireIf you're figuring out how to hire a founding engineer for your startup, the worst thing you can do is run your standard senior engineering interview. I've made this mistake. I evaluated a founding hi00
DEDaniel Engelhardtinassessory.app·Feb 7 · 7 min readWhy Code Is No Longer a Reliable Hiring SignalThe first time I ran technical interviews at a startup, the playbook was simple: give a coding problem, watch them code, judge correctness and style. It felt like a decent proxy for "can this person s00
