Category Job Intel

CK Layoffs: One QE I’d Hire

After Credit Karma’s recent layoffs, I received over a dozen calls from strong engineers. One just hit the market with phenomenal experience, and I had to spotlight him. Deepak Vasanati is a Senior QE with a decade of experience in…

Credit Karma’s QA Bench Is Strong

Phone’s ringing from folks over @ Credit Karma after the Intuit layoffs. Hearing a decent number of senior QA engineers were impacted. If you’re hiring and looking for strong quality engineering talent, I’d take a look at the CK roster.…

QA Market Watch: Current Signals

I’ve heard great things about The Hartford from my engineering community over the years. I noticed a couple good lookin’ QA gigs open on their site here locally (R2623925-166 && R2624556-166). I spoke with a few engineers there today who…

Eng Leaders: Scaling QA for AI Systems

One of the more interesting conversations I sat in on recently wasn’t about building AI workflows. It was about maintaining them. Ovidius AI was discussing a challenge I think a lot of AI implementation firms run into: How do you…

Charlotte QA: Market Watch

Seeing continued demand for senior-level Quality Engineers with automation experience, particularly around modern QA practices, automation coverage, and supporting evolving engineering workflows which is exciting to see. Example: Hearing TQL recently interviewed for this role and believe this is more…

Current Expectations for QA Leaders

A lot of engineering leaders are being asked to solve multiple problems at once:→ increase delivery speed→ adopt AI→ reduce waste→ and upskill existing teams while still shipping That last part is…really tough. I’ve been in the IT TA game…

Most outreach fails before it’s even read

If you’re applying to jobs without also reaching out to recruiters or hiring managers in your space, you’re leaving opportunities on the table. But knowing how and when to engage is what actually matters. Top: what my LinkedIn inbox looks…

Charlotte QA: Market Watch

Remote, Stateside- Senior SDET Gig: Briefly swapped intros today with Rob Sarro who mentioned he’s hiring for his team at Anaconda. (remote, stateside- backfill). He noted the 5+ years is more of a baseline signal than a hard filter which…

Ovidius AI

Title: Senior AI Engineer, Agentic SystemsDuration: FulltimeLocation: Fully remoteRelease Date: 05/04Owner: Owen Boesveld We’re hiring a Senior Engineer to build production AI agents. This role owns the full stack: Claude Managed Agents, RAG pipelines over proprietary data, and Claude Cowork…