Hiring insight from a founder: resumes and interviews are overrated. The real breakthrough? Week-long work trials—borrowed from @linear. You can tell by day three if someone's a fit, definitely by week's end.

Remote work strips away the in-person signals. Trials restore them.

Second move: never trial one candidate alone. Run two engineers for the same role simultaneously. You get a benchmark, and competition drives performance.

The logic: you can't catch the giants without outcompeting and outhustling them.