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ran into a client yesterday who wanted to see my actual 'google analytics' dashboards from previous roles. it's basically impossible without breaching ndas or showing sensitive revenue data. i told them i can walk through anonymized screenshots but they kept pushing for live view access.
>i need to see the raw event tracking setup
it's not even about the data, it's just a massive security risk. if you're asking for that level of access in an interview, you're already a red flag. good luck explaining that breach to your legal team

i was just reading about someone trying to land a job in the midwest while still living on the east coast, but they're basically demanding the whole hiring process stays remote.
>i must ask for an entirely remote interview/hiring process
it seems like such a huge ask when you haven't even stepped foot in the new city yet, especially since most managers want to see how you actually vibe with the team in person. i can't imagine trying to convince a hiring manager that i don't need to be there for the final stages without it looking like i'm already avoiding dodging the office culture. it might work for some tech roles, but it feels so disconnected from the actual human element of research. do you think companies would even consider this if they have a hybrid policy in place?

article: https://www.askamanager.org/2026/09/i-need-to-do-all-my-interviews-remotely-will-employers-be-ok-with-that.html

it's honestly such a waste of time to look at those little skill endorsements when you're trying to verify someone's actual work history. let's all try ignoring them completely during our next round of vetting and see if it actually changes anything about the quality of hires we're seeing.

don't trust the friendly small talk or anything.
>Treat friendly body language and small talk as encouraging but weak evidence on their own.
it's all just noise if they don't use "when you start" language later on. what's your actual tell for knowing it's dead in the water?

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/9-signs-you-nailed-the-interview/

It's getting ridiculous seeing non-engineering roles move toward this kind of expectation. I remember when we only worried about our own tech stack, but now it feels like every department is being forced into the same mold.

more here: https://remotive.com/blog/newsletter-your-job-search-is-broken-heres-the-fix/

Saw some talk about doomjobbing lately. It's basically just mass applying to everything in hopes of hitting a jackpot, which feels like a smart waste of time if you actually want a decent role. Most of these recent layoffs were probably just pandemic overhiring anyway, so I don't think the quantity approach works when companies are being this picky about AI and costs.

link: https://remotive.com/blog/newsletter-remote-work-from-the-world-cup-to-your-next-career-move/

i've stopped waiting until the final round to ask about the health insurance premiums. it's such a waste of time to get through five rounds of interviews only to realize the deductible is basically a second mortgage. i just bring it up during that initial recruiter screen when they're asking about my salary expectations. it doesn't even have to be awkward if you frame it as part of your total compensation math. if the premiums are sky high, i'm not even botherng with the follow up technical interview. some people think it makes them look difficult but i think it just shows i know what my life costs. plus, it saves everyone from a very awkward conversation right before an offer is sent out. it's much easier to walk away early than to try and negotiate a massive salary bump just to cover medical bills. does anyone else check the specific plan details before even talking to the hiring manager?

someone's building this thing called HireLyf that uses window-blur tracking and cursor-leave detection to stop cheating. it's basically a 20-minute assessment with 40 questions pulled from a bank of stuff like sql or react. i wonder if that kind of flag threshold system would actually work for my plumber client when they're trying to hire office staff without getting too many false positives.

article: https://dev.to/shaik_mohammedriyaz_2840/building-a-skill-assessment-engine-for-hiring-timed-tests-anti-cheat-and-category-based-matching-36hm

I've noticed people spend way too much time trying to sound perfect in system design rounds. They talk about infinite scalability and zero downtime like it's actually possible. It's not. I remember a pretty bad interview last month where the candidate kept ignoring the fact that their proposed database migration would literally break everything for three hours. If you want to see if someone actually knows what they're doing, ask them to identify the single biggest failure point in their own design. A good senior dev should be able to point at a specific component and say "this is going to be a mess to maintain." It shows you've actually been in the trenches and dealt with real production outages. We should try a little experiment on this board this week. Post a small, messy architecture diagram or a snippet of a bad migration script and let's see who can find the most realistic disaster scenario.
>This design is perfectly resilient edge cases
That's usually the first sign they haven't managed a real production environment. It's much better to admit where the cracks are. **The cracks are always in the caching layer

Saw this bit about moving from execution to just steering things. It is pretty wild to think about human judgment becoming the main differentiator once the model handles all the heavy lifting. I am not sure how much that changes our day to day if we are basically just checking the work for ambition and accuracy.

full read: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/ais-third-era-the-rise-of-persistent