We write about the parts nobody else talks about. What to ask in the final round. How much your friend's friend is actually making. Why the offer took six weeks.
A day-by-day look at what they changed, what they kept, and what they'd do differently.
They were a 40-person product team. Hiring was taking 38 days on average and they kept losing finalists to competing offers. Six weeks later they'd cut it to 11 days, and the last three hires came in under budget. Here's what they actually did, with the rating sheet and the scheduling rules they still use.
Open this in JobSpring →These five will give you most of what we believe about hiring. The first three are for people doing the hiring. The last two are if you're the one in the chair. Toggle above to see more.
A rating sheet small enough to fit on one page, specific enough to keep the debrief out of gut-feel territory.
It's usually not the pay. It's the eighth calendar invite.
How to pick a number, say it out loud, and not flinch when they push back.
The things references won't say out loud, and how to get at them in forty minutes.
You don't have to actually want the second job. You just have to have it.
Three schedules, fourteen teams, and the one number they all ended up tracking.
Fourteen engineering teams tried three different hybrid schedules. Only one metric survived the year.
Open in JobSpringThree rules for posting about your work. None of them involve the word 'thoughts.'
Three rules that get you inbound offers and speaking invites, without writing a single 'unpopular opinion' thread.
Track where you've appliedIf your debrief keeps ending with 'I just got a vibe from them,' this is for you.
Small teams default to vibes. A one-page rating sheet is usually enough to fix it.
Grab the sheetNobody brings up the signing bonus until the fourth call. Here's how both sides should think about it.
It's the easiest number in the offer to move. Most candidates never even ask. We put together a script and a simple spreadsheet.
Run the numbersThe stuff you need to know before you say yes, and the stuff references won't tell you.
You've got about forty minutes with them. Here's what to actually do with it.
Save itFour new job sites, a quieter filter bar, and a loading bug we still haven't figured out.
Four new job-site connectors went out. The filter bar stopped screaming at everyone. We also broke page loading trying to fix page loading.
See what shippedThese come from actual offers moving through JobSpring. Filtered by role, seniority, and city. Every time we write about money, we link back here.
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