Dev Journal

How to Hire a QA Engineer: Manual, Automation and the Test-Strategy Interview

Hiring a QA engineer requires understanding the differences between manual QA, automation, and SDET roles, along with effective interview strategies.

How to Hire a Full-Stack Developer Without Hiring a Unicorn

Hiring a full-stack developer poses unique challenges for companies. This guide outlines effective strategies to attract skilled candidates without unrealistic expectations.

How to Hire an AI Engineer: Job Description, Skills and Comp Bands

This guide outlines essential elements in hiring AI engineers, including job descriptions, required skills, and compensation banding methodologies.

How to Hire a Frontend Developer: Evaluating React Skills

Learn effective strategies for assessing React skills during frontend developer hiring, beyond just portfolio review.

How to Hire a Backend Developer: Scoping the Role Before You Post It

Effective backend developer hiring begins with precise role scoping, ensuring that the right skills are targeted and aligned with your project's needs.

Navigating the Landscape: Hiring a Machine Learning Engineer

We refined our hiring process for machine learning engineers by focusing on deployment skills and clarifying the role's distinction from data scientists.

How to Hire a DevOps Engineer: Skills and Interview Insights

We refined our hiring process for DevOps engineers, focusing on clear role definitions and targeted interview questions.

Navigating the Developer Salary Benchmarking Maze

We implemented a structured approach to benchmark developer salaries, reducing reliance on biased data sources and enhancing our internal salary banding.

Understanding the Cost of Hiring a Developer: A Practical Breakdown

We developed a formula to compute the cost per hire, breaking down expenses into sourcing, tooling, interview hours, agency fees, and vacancy costs.

Navigating Cold Outreach Recruiting for Developer Hiring

Cold outreach and inbound applications solve different sourcing problems: outreach buys access to passive senior engineers, inbound buys volume and cost efficiency.

Evaluating Recruitment Pricing Models: A Deep Dive

We analyzed different recruitment pricing models, focusing on their incentives and suitability for startups versus agencies.

Job Boards vs AI Matching: Which Fills a Developer Role Faster

Job boards and AI matching solve different halves of the same hiring funnel: one maximizes inbound volume, the other maximizes precision before a human looks at a candidate. Here is how to reason about which wins for a given role, and how to combine both instead of picking a side.