Category: Hiring & Management
Practical advice for hiring managers and recruiters in tech
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Hiring for Culture Fit in Tech: Science vs Gut Feeling
“Culture fit” sounds principled. In most European tech hiring processes I’ve observed over the past decade, it functions as something narrower: a mechanism for managing interpersonal risk. That’s not how it’s framed. But it’s how it behaves. What the Research Actually Says Google’s Project Aristotle, which analysed more than 180 internal teams, concluded that psychological…
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Tech Interview Prep: What European Companies Actually Test
Most candidates assume interviews measure competence. In most European companies, they measure exposure — exposure to risk, exposure to cost, exposure to unpredictability. After eighteen years in IT — twelve inside Tier-1 manufacturing IT and six in digital agencies — I stopped treating interviews as talent discovery. They are risk compression exercises. The question behind…
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How to Write a Tech CV That Gets Past the ATS in 2024
Most engineers blame ATS. That’s convenient. It shifts responsibility to a machine. The uncomfortable reality: ATS rarely rejects strong candidates. Humans do. What ATS Actually Is Large European enterprises overwhelmingly use Applicant Tracking Systems. Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Lever — these systems dominate mid-to-large organisations. Their core function is structured parsing: extract job titles, identify…
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How to Hire Senior Developers Without Wasting 3 Months
The phrase “senior talent shortage” is repeated so often it starts to sound structural. In most European hiring processes I’ve observed over the past decade, the delay is rarely caused by absence of capable engineers. It is caused by internal ambiguity about what “senior” actually means inside the organisation. That ambiguity compounds week after week.…