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Your First Ten Engineering Hires: What to Test, and in What Order

Hire the first engineer and you want someone who can do everything. Hire the tenth and you want someone who makes nine other people faster. Most startups run the same loop for both. Here is what to test at each stage, and the failure each one prevents.

Rust Developer Assessment: The Compiler Already Checked the Easy Part

Rust interviews still argue about the borrow checker, which the compiler settled before anyone sat down. Here are four tasks on a service that compiles cleanly and behaves badly, panics in the request path, a blocked async runtime, errors that help nobody, and a hot path nobody measured.