Product P-04 / 08 / Downloadable $100 USD × 60+ pages

Senior engineer
hiring rubric.

The scorecards, take-home, and interview scripts we use to hire our own team. Calibration guide and example completed scorecards included — the parts that usually get withheld.

USD 100
One-time
60+
Pages
4
Loop stages
1 / 80
Our offer rate

A loop you can run
on your first hire
or your fiftieth.

Not theory — the exact loop and scoring we run today, with the failure modes we’ve hit named and addressed.

A / Scorecards

Per-stage scorecards

Four loop stages; each with named signals and counter-signals.

  • Phone screen 30 min
  • Take-home 4 hr cap
  • Technical deep-dive 90 min
  • Architecture interview 60 min
  • Calibration call 30 min
B / Take-home

Two take-home kits

Backend + frontend. Each ~4 hours. Solutions included.

  • Backend kit Go starter
  • Frontend kit React starter
  • Time cap honored enforced
  • Reference solutions in pack
  • Scoring guide with rubric
C / Scripts

Interview scripts

What to ask, what to follow up on, what to flag.

  • Open-ended not lookup
  • Counter-signal prompts included
  • Time-box per topic guidance
  • Bar-raiser cues noted
  • Cultural questions with rationale
D / Calibration

Calibration guide

How to stop hiring against the loudest interviewer.

  • Weighting per stage documented
  • Override rules explicit
  • Bias prompts reviewed
  • Reject reasoning standardized
  • Example calls transcripts

Sixty pages of specifics.

Notion + PDF. Use as-is, fork the format, or just lift the parts that improve your current loop.

01

Hiring handbook

60+ page PDF: the loop, the scoring, the calibration, the rejection reasoning. Reads start-to-finish in a couple hours.

02

Notion templates

Per-candidate scorecard, loop tracker, calibration meeting agenda. Drop into your workspace and start using.

03

Two take-home kits

Backend (Go) and frontend (React). Includes reference solutions and per-criterion scoring.

04

Example completed scorecards

Three real (anonymized) scorecards: a strong yes, a strong no, and a borderline hire — with calibration notes.

Things buyers ask
on the first call.

If something isn’t answered here, ask in your intro email — we keep this list short on purpose.

Will this work for junior hires?+

Partially. The loop structure transfers; the scoring is calibrated for senior. We include a section on adjusting weights for mid-level — junior is its own thing we don’t cover.

Is the take-home anonymized? Can candidates google it?+

The take-home prompts in the pack are distinct from what we use in our own loop today — so candidates can’t google a leaked version. If you want fully unique prompts, we offer a custom variant (email us).

Do you do AI / ML hiring?+

The pack covers software-engineering hiring broadly. AI-specific evaluation (eval design, prompt judgment, model debugging) isn’t covered — that’s a different rubric we haven’t productized yet.

What’s your hiring success rate after applying this?+

Across our team: 12+ year average tenure, 1-in-80 offer rate, sub-5% regrettable attrition. Yours will differ — the rubric is necessary, not sufficient.

Need it customized
for your team?

We do bespoke kits, too. Send a paragraph about the problem and we’ll come back inside 48 hours.

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