Hiring Playbook

Take-homes are being replaced by 60-minute live coding interviews with two engineers watching. Senior developers are publicly pushing back. Here's what that format actually measures — and what you can do instead.

Developers are spending hours on take-home tests and hearing nothing back. The data shows this silence is costing employers their best candidates — and their reputation.

80% of candidates now use AI on coding tests. Banning it does not work, and ignoring it is reckless. Here is how brief-driven, real-project assessment reveals genuine capability regardless of which tools were used.

Most code challenge briefs test the wrong things. Learn how to write briefs that evaluate candidates on the skills your role actually requires.

AI-powered code review in hiring raises legitimate fairness concerns. We examine the evidence, the risks, and how brief-driven scoring addresses bias.

Manual code reviews in hiring consume far more time and money than most teams realise. Here is what the data says and what you can do about it.