Recent posts tagged hiring

Hiring a developer is one of the most consequential decisions a startup founder makes, and most founders make it by looking at the wrong things. Not because they are careless, but because the signals that are easiest to see, the GitHub profile, the ...

A written brief, covered in more depth in an earlier post, gets a conversation started with real information instead of a vague "I need a website." The actual discovery call is where that information turns into a real, shared understanding of the pro...

There's a real difference between hiring someone less experienced or more affordable, a legitimate, honest tradeoff, and hiring someone operating in outright bad faith. This is specifically about the second category, the concrete signs worth taking s...

> Originally published on 30 July 2026 at efe-genc-portfolio.vercel.apphttps://efe-genc-portfolio.vercel.app/writing/showing-ownership-private-repositories/. That version is the maintained one; the figures below are measurements taken on the dates st...

Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/kill-the-credential/. Canonical URL: https://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/kill-the-credential/ If you have ever deleted a requirement from a job posting and assumed the funnel w...

This is one of the more stressful situations in hiring freelance help, and it's common enough to be worth a real, practical answer rather than just sympathy. A developer who was responsive and reliable suddenly goes quiet, mid-project, with money alr...

Because "we'll be in touch" is not an observable state. I submitted a job application recently. It was one of those applications where you actually put in the effort. I read the job description carefully, tailored the resume, wrote a cover letter s...

I recently interviewed some fresh graduates and noticed an interesting pattern. The projects on their resumes looked impressive: Beautiful UI Modern tech stacks AI-powered features Clean GitHub repositories At first glance, they looked like st...

US hiring managers and recruiters do not read your CV. They scan it. Eye-tracking research from The Ladders shows that recruiters spend an average of just 7.4 seconds on the first pass of a resume. In those few seconds they decide whether to keep re...

title: How we built a job search assistant MCP for Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT published: true description: An engineering write-up on the Four-Leaf MCP server. OAuth 2.1 + PKCE + DCR, server-side web search for grounded comp data, the 60s client t...

If you're hiring a Shopify or WordPress developer in 2026 and the last person you worked with didn't go well, you're not alone. The freelance market is louder than ever, marketplaces are full of generalists who've never opened Liquid or written a Gut...

Hiring Agentic AI Engineers? This one question you could ask to separate the real talent from others. Agentic AI engineering isn’t just about calling APIs or writing flashy prompts. It’s about building real solutions that work for real users....

The traditional tech hiring process is broken by design. A typical senior engineer search takes 60–90 days, burns 40+ hours of engineering time on interviews, and still results in a 30% miss rate on cultural and technical fit. In 2025, that math no l...

CoderLegion Launches Powerful Jobs Module — Where Tech Talent Meets Opportunity We’re excited to announce the official launch of the Jobs Module on CoderLegion — a brand-new feature designed to help developers find their next caree...