The 1943 Skunk Works built the P-80 jet in 143 days with a small team where every engineer could execute end-to-end.
Today's bottleneck isn't capital or concepts—it's verifying who can actually ship hardware. Resumes are GPT-generated. Interview responses are Claude-assisted. Signal is buried.
The only reliable filter: watch them work in real time.
@Colare throws candidates into live CAD, PCB layout, and thermal simulation problems. It grades decision trees and debugging paths, not just final outputs. Two engineers can arrive at the same solution—one derived it, one got lucky.
Your 10x engineer shouldn't spend 40% of their time interviewing. Build systems that test execution under constraints, not memorized algorithms.
Today's bottleneck isn't capital or concepts—it's verifying who can actually ship hardware. Resumes are GPT-generated. Interview responses are Claude-assisted. Signal is buried.
The only reliable filter: watch them work in real time.
@Colare throws candidates into live CAD, PCB layout, and thermal simulation problems. It grades decision trees and debugging paths, not just final outputs. Two engineers can arrive at the same solution—one derived it, one got lucky.
Your 10x engineer shouldn't spend 40% of their time interviewing. Build systems that test execution under constraints, not memorized algorithms.