Ideas that move hiring forward

Tactics, frameworks, and sharp thinking on recruitment, AI, and building teams that actually work.

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Hiring tactics

Why Your First-Round Interview Is Wasting Everyone's Time

You're paying your best engineers to ask the same five questions to people you'll never hire. Here's the math on what first-round calls actually cost — and what to do instead.

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Hiring tactics

The Real Cost of a Bad Hire (It's Not Just the Salary)

You hire someone for $60K. Three months later, it's a mistake. Final cost? Closer to $120K. Here's the full breakdown of hidden costs most teams get wrong.

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Hiring tactics

How to Write Video Assessment Questions That Actually Tell You Something

The question "why do you want this role?" tells you almost nothing. Here's how scenario-based prompts reveal how candidates actually think and work.

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Culture

Remote Hiring Is Broken — Here's How to Fix It

Remote hiring promised access to the best talent in the world. So why does it still feel like a mess? Async changes everything — here's how.

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Hiring tactics

5 Signs Your Hiring Process Is Costing You Great Candidates

Candidates drop out for a reason. Glacial response times, black-box processes, and too many rounds — here are the five friction points killing your pipeline.

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AI & product

What AI Can (and Can't) Do in Hiring

AI doesn't hire people. It helps humans hire better ones. Here's where AI genuinely excels in recruitment — and where it hits a wall.

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Engineering

How to Build a Coding Challenge That Predicts Real Performance

If your coding challenge can be solved by copy-pasting from Stack Overflow, it's not testing what you think it is. Here's what separates weak tests from ones that work.

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Hiring tactics

How to Reduce Bias in Your Screening Process Without Starting From Scratch

Bias in hiring isn't always conscious. Small structural changes — standardized questions, structured scoring, blind reviews — can dramatically shift objectivity.

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AI & product

Wonka vs. TestGorilla: Which Assessment Platform Is Right for Your Team?

TestGorilla has one of the biggest test libraries in the industry. So why are teams switching to Wonka? A side-by-side comparison of two different approaches.