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13 entries tagged “Hiring”
- The New Talent Stack: Product, Platform, and Applied AI Must Work as One System
· 3 min
AI organizations create leverage when product, platform, and applied AI are designed as one operating system instead of three kingdoms.
teams
ai
platform-engineering
Hiring for AI Teams: The Operator Profile That Actually Scales
· 3 min
The highest-leverage AI hires are operators who can handle ambiguity, systems tradeoffs, and verification pressure.
hiring
ai
leadership
Your AI Team Problem Is Not Technical
· 4 min
Most AI team failures come from unclear ownership and weak evaluation, not missing talent. Structure and discipline beat hiring sprees.
ai
teams
hiring
AI Engineering Is Its Own Discipline Now
· 4 min
AI engineering is not ML research with a product hat. It is the discipline of making models behave in production -- and it demands its own skill set.
ai
hiring
llm
2022: The Year the Music Stopped
· 5 min
A personal look back at 2022: building through the downturn, watching ChatGPT arrive, and what the year taught me about building things that last.
year-in-review
reflection
ai
Watching Layoffs From the Inside
· 5 min
What I saw during the 2022 layoff wave, and what actually helps engineering teams survive contraction without burning out.
leadership
teams
hiring
Your Onboarding Is Broken. Here's the Fix.
· 4 min
Most engineering onboarding wastes the first week on access requests and context overload. The fix is simple: ship a real PR by day three.
hiring
leadership
teams
What I Actually Changed About Engineering Interviews Over Zoom
· 4 min
Whiteboard coding over Zoom is broken. Here's what I do instead when hiring engineers virtually.
hiring
remote-work
engineering
Your Onboarding Is Broken and Everyone Knows It
· 6 min
Most engineering onboarding is a polite abandonment ritual. What I've learned across three startups about getting new engineers shipping fast.
hiring
engineering
teams
Stop Wasting Everyone's Time in Technical Interviews
· 6 min
Most technical interviews test the wrong things. After hiring engineers at the fintech startup, here's what I've learned actually predicts job performance.
hiring
engineering
leadership
Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead: What's Actually Different
· 5 min
Two leadership tracks, one fork in the road. What engineering managers and tech leads actually do day-to-day, from how we structured it at the fintech startup.
hiring
leadership
engineering
Leading Without a Title — What Actually Works
· 5 min
Nobody handed me a leadership mandate at the fintech startup. I earned it through credibility, clear communication, and the unglamorous work.
leadership
engineering
hiring
Hiring Engineers When You Can't Compete on Salary
· 6 min
You cannot outpay Big Tech, but you can outshine it on impact, growth, autonomy, and clarity. This is how to hire great engineers with a startup offer in 2016.
hiring
startups
engineering