Technical Recruiting Is Broken — Here's How to Fix It
Why technical hiring keeps failing teams — and how to combine recruiter instincts with real engineering judgment.
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Technical recruitingHiringEngineering teamsTeam building
Technical recruiting is broken, and Oshri Cohen has strong opinions about why. In this conversation he argues that most hiring processes screen for the wrong things — and that fixing them means pairing a recruiter's instinct for people with an engineer's ability to actually evaluate the work.
He draws on building and leading engineering teams across countries and time zones to lay out a more honest, more effective way to hire developers: assess the real signal, respect candidates' time, and stop optimizing for interview theater.
Practical guidance for founders and hiring managers tired of expensive mis-hires.
What's covered
- Why most technical interview processes screen for the wrong things
- Combining recruiter instinct with real engineering judgment
- How to find genuine signal in a hiring process
- Reducing the cost of expensive mis-hires
