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What Recruiters Get Wrong About QA Leadership Hires
Read more: What Recruiters Get Wrong About QA Leadership HiresA lot of companies are trying to invest in Quality Engineering right now, especially in the AI era where shipping is faster and messier. The intent is right. The execution is where things break. They open a req for a “QA Manager” like that title means something universal. It does not. And increasingly, there is…
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Instead of “send a thank you email,” schedule the debrief.
Read more: Instead of “send a thank you email,” schedule the debrief.Years ago, job searching had rhythm. You’d signal you were open, have a handful of conversations, move through a few interviews, get a couple offers, pick one, and move on to your next career adventure. That version of the market doesn’t really exist anymore. What’s replaced it is quieter and messier. People aren’t drowning in…
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AI Is Shining a Light on Lazy Recruiters
Read more: AI Is Shining a Light on Lazy RecruitersLast week, I spoke with a Talent Acquisition Manager who proudly showed me an AI-powered sourcing and resume review workflow he had built using Claude Code. The concept’s impressive. He had taken resumes from candidates who had previously been hired successfully, fed them into an AI workflow, and instructed the system to weigh incoming applicants…
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Traditional QA interviews tested frameworks. AI-QA interviews are starting to test systems thinking
Read more: Traditional QA interviews tested frameworks. AI-QA interviews are starting to test systems thinkingI recently had a conversation with Gregory Goldshteyn, a QA engineering leader at Fox Corporation working on streaming playback and quality initiatives across platforms like Apple TV, Roku, and Fire TV. The biggest takeaway? The hiring market for AI-QA roles is shifting quickly, and a lot of candidates and recruiters are still screening for the…
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Everyone Thinks AI Is Easy Until They Have Something To Ship
Read more: Everyone Thinks AI Is Easy Until They Have Something To ShipI spent 20 hours watching AI videos and still couldn’t build a simple workflow. Not a multi-agent system.Not some advanced orchestration layer.Not an enterprise AI deployment. I was just trying to connect n8n to my email and generate daily email status reports. And I couldn’t even get the nodes configured correctly. So naturally, I went…
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100 Recruiter Conversations Later, Here’s What I Learned About “Beating the AI”
Read more: 100 Recruiter Conversations Later, Here’s What I Learned About “Beating the AI”Over the last few months, I’ve had hundreds of conversations with recruiters, talent acquisition leaders, hiring managers, and engineers. But for job seekers, one question keeps coming up over and over again: “How do I beat the AI screening tools so a real human sees my resume?” The funny part?Alot of companies still aren’t using…
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Why QA Might Be the Most Important Team in AI Right Now
Read more: Why QA Might Be the Most Important Team in AI Right NowA Conversation with JB Mesquita (N8N Ambassador) on Testing, N8N, and the Future of AI Workflows I’ve had to watch over the years as QA took a backseat to development. In terms of perception, QA was often treated like the underdog: the last stop in the software development lifecycle, the final checkbox before production. But…
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Why One QA Automation Engineer Didn’t Get Selected for a Job He Fit to a T
Read more: Why One QA Automation Engineer Didn’t Get Selected for a Job He Fit to a TA QA Automation Engineer with 5 years of experience applied to a role he fit almost perfectly. The recruiter thought so too. A few days after applying, he got an email to schedule a call. The conversation went great. He had the automation background. The technical stack aligned. Communication skills were strong. Startup experience? Check.…







