Hiring strategies, LATAM talent trends, and engineering leadership — from people who do this every day.
Hiring engineers after an acquisition: protecting key people, staffing the integration work, where augmented engineers fit, and a worked example.
Staff augmentation for PE portfolio companies: staffing the value creation plan, controlling engineering cost, and a worked 100-day example.
How to clear an engineering backlog fast: triage and delete, cap work in progress, then add engineers where Brooks's law will not bite. With a worked example.
How to staff up engineering for a holiday traffic peak: a backwards calendar from Thanksgiving, what extra engineers should work on, and a worked example.
Hiring engineers in Q4: why waiting for January pushes your start date to spring, what actually slows down in December, and how to start before the new year.
How to hire a developer for a 3-month project: freelancer vs agency vs staff augmentation, how onboarding eats the timeline, and a week-by-week plan.
How to hire a tech lead for a remote team: what the role owns, how to screen for written technical leadership, a paid trial, and the mistakes to avoid.
How to hire an Elixir developer: what the role does, how to screen for OTP and BEAM experience, a practical exercise, and where to find senior talent.
How to hire a Django developer: what the role does at a startup, how to screen for ORM and upgrade experience, a practical exercise, and red flags.
How to hire a FastAPI developer: what the role covers, how to screen for async and Pydantic skills, a practical exercise, and when Django fits better.
How to hire a TypeScript developer: how to tell real type-system skill from annotations, a practical exercise, red flags, and where the role fits your stack.
How to hire a context engineer: what context engineering is, the skills behind it, how to screen for it with a practical exercise, and red flags to avoid.
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