The Perfect Hiring System

AI has moved the bar. Writing code is no longer the hard part of the job, so testing only for code tells you less and less about who will do well on your team. The Perfect Hiring System is how I hire software engineers now: for judgement, ownership and teamwork. It’s built from over a thousand interviews. There’s a guide you read once, and worksheets you use on every hire. What’s inside: The guide: the whole approach, start to finish Question Set: questions that show how people think, not what they’ve memorised Scorecard: what good looks like, so every interviewer scores the same way Technical debrief: a structured way to turn the technical stage into a decision Feedback emails: templates for telling candidates the outcome kindly and clearly Offer & salary bands: a worksheet for putting together a fair, consistent offer Org assessment: check your own hiring process before you blame the market Agency tracker: keep recruiters and their candidates in one place FAQs & pitfalls: the…