Engineering notes
Articles on AI in hiring. See how AI is changing applications and what a skills test can show. Learn about the optional AI Sandbox and hiring people who use AI well.
July 18, 2026 · 8 min read
An AI Sandbox assessment measures the real 2026 skill: working with AI well. See how our live approach evaluates prompt craft, verification and judgement.
July 18, 2026 · 9 min read
Prevent cheating on AI-generated assessments with content candidates can't find in advance plus a six-signal integrity engine that keeps a human in the loop.
July 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Hiring fraud — cheated assessments, impersonation, and AI-ghostwritten answers — poisons every downstream decision. The real cost of hiring fraud, and how to fix it.
July 21, 2026 · 9 min read
Prompt engineering for software engineers is system design plus code review: specify constraints, include the tests, read the output, catch the deprecated call.
July 21, 2026 · 9 min read
Prompt engineering for data analysts is a precise metric definition plus the discipline to distrust the result until it reconciles. Why the number is the risk.
July 22, 2026 · 9 min read
A practical guide on how to hire a data analyst in 2026 — the skills that predict success, a real work sample, AI-fluency signals, and the questions that work.
July 22, 2026 · 9 min read
How to hire a data engineer without being fooled by a polished CV — a skills-first guide to work samples, pipelines, data-quality traps, and AI fluency.
July 22, 2026 · 9 min read
A practical guide on how to hire a DevOps engineer — what to assess, the work sample that predicts success, interview questions, and green and red flags.
July 22, 2026 · 9 min read
A skills-first guide to how to hire a forward deployment engineer: what to assess, the work sample to run, and the AI-native signals that predict success.
July 22, 2026 · 9 min read
A skills-first guide on how to hire a machine learning engineer: what to assess, the work sample that predicts production success, and questions that work.
July 23, 2026 · 9 min read
How to hire a backend engineer in 2026: a skills map, a work-sample brief, AI-fluency signals, structured interviews, scorecards, and red flags to avoid.
July 23, 2026 · 10 min read
How to hire a frontend engineer in 2026: skills to screen for, a buggy-component work sample, AI-fluency signals, structured questions, and a scorecard.
July 23, 2026 · 9 min read
How to hire a QA engineer in 2026: screen for test strategy and automation judgement with work samples, structured interviews, and AI-fluency checks.
July 23, 2026 · 9 min read
Prompt engineering for recruiters: copy-ready prompts for intake specs, boolean search, outreach at scale, screening notes, and bias-checked questions.
July 23, 2026 · 10 min read
AI-generated resumes are now the baseline, not the exception. Why detection tools fail, which tells actually matter, and how to screen on demonstrated skills.
July 18, 2026 · 11 min read
AI-generated assessments compose a test per job instead of picking from a shared library. How generation, quality gates and compliance actually work.
July 21, 2026 · 10 min read
Your hires will use AI from day one, so assess them with it. What a good AI Sandbox task looks like, what to measure, and how to read the signals fairly.
August 15, 2026 · 10 min read
How we run AI coding agents against one binding engineering standard: the 4D framework, a list of named failure modes, and why every behaviour ships behind a flag.