Hiring insights and best practices

Technical hiring assessments: what the research actually shows

Most hiring advice is opinion with a confident tone. This is not: a century of validity research has a clear answer about what predicts job performance, and it is not the conversation you are having on the call.

Alisson Enz Rossi

Sep 14, 2026About 4 minutes

Screening
Video interview questions that reveal how someone communicates
Communication is the hardest thing to read from a CV and the easiest to read from ninety seconds of someone explaining their work. Asynchronous video makes that cheap, if the questions are good.
Aug 26, 2026About 4 minutes
Assessment design
Code assessments that good engineers are willing to finish
The strongest candidates have the most options, which makes them the first to abandon an assessment that wastes their evening. Designing for them changes what the test looks like.
Aug 5, 2026About 4 minutes
Remote hiring
Hiring remotely without falling back on gut feel
Hiring across timezones strips out the corridor conversation and the shared lunch. Teams that do it well do not miss those signals, because they replaced them with something they can actually compare.
Jul 15, 2026About 4 minutes

Hiring insights and best practices

Technical hiring assessments: what the research actually shows

Video interview questions that reveal how someone communicates

Code assessments that good engineers are willing to finish

Hiring remotely without falling back on gut feel