Tech Leadership

Every hiring process I've sat in claims to be looking for the best candidate. Ask "best against what" and you mostly get a blank look, because nobody's actually defined it. They're ranking people against each other on a shortlist, not against the team those people are meant to join. I think about it more like finding product-market fit than finding the smartest person available. You can build something brilliant and still watch it die because nobody wanted it. Hire someone br

Three engineers. Same team. Same tools. Three completely different stages. Most organisations are spread across the AI adoption curve without knowing it, and the big numbers only appear at the end.