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Opinions on engineering hiring
Arguments about how infrastructure engineers should be evaluated, and why most of the industry gets it backwards.
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Blast radius: measuring what you broke while fixing
Blast radius is what a candidate broke or risked while fixing the fault. Why it's the most predictive hiring signal that nobody is measuring today.
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The take-home test is dead. Engineers killed it, AI buried it.
Take-home tests were losing candidates before LLMs made them unverifiable. The alternatives to take-home tests, and why the replacement has to test the job.
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