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Insights from the work

Hiring and engineering practice, written by people doing the work.

How to tell a real recruitment partner from a resume mill

Most agencies optimize for application volume because it is easy to measure. Here is what to ask before you sign with one.

Parsing, keyword scoring and the formatting choices that quietly drop you out of the pile before a human ever opens the file.

Idle environments, oversized instances, forgotten snapshots and cross-region traffic. None of it is exotic, all of it is expensive.