Notes on hiring, security, and how we build Kit.
Test take-home assignment instructions with a fresh reader. Observe setup and submission, log blockers, repair the brief, and retest before inviting candidates.
Use coding interview follow-up questions to turn a passing solution into a concrete maintenance exercise: one change, regression tests, and a clear handoff.
How to hire a Rails engineer for a startup: define the work, test a safe change in a real-looking app, and score judgment when AI can write the code.
Build a senior engineer design review interview with a shared proposal, concrete scoring criteria, and consistent questions. Includes a fictional exercise.
Plan Rust onboarding before making language experience a hiring requirement. Define starter tasks, review responsibilities, and evidence of readiness.
GitHub contribution counts reward visible activity, not engineering quality. Use this six-part rubric to review developer portfolios fairly in 2026.
Canva, Meta and Google now expect candidates to use AI in specific interview rounds. Here's the per-stage policy, scorecard and disclosure to copy.
The 3.2:1 AI talent gap everyone quotes doesn't check out. Here's the real data, and the sourcing playbook startups use to beat Big Tech on speed.
Research keeps finding return-to-office mandates are about control, not productivity. For startups, indulging that quietly costs you senior engineers and every hire.
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