LeadershipEngineeringHiring
What We Actually Look For When Hiring Engineers in 2026
We once hired an engineer who aced our old interview and struggled on the job within a month. Rebuilding the interview around what actually would have caught that is why it looks nothing like it used to.
EvolRed Team·
6 min readEngineeringAILeadership
The On-Call Rotation We Had to Redesign for an Agent-Assisted Codebase
We paged an engineer for a bug in a module she had, technically, authored, and she had no memory of the logic that broke. That single page is why our incident process no longer assumes the author remembers.
EvolRed Team·
6 min readLeadershipAIEngineering
Managing a Team Where Everyone Also Manages an Agent
Every engineer on our team now spends part of their day supervising an AI agent instead of writing every line themselves. That changes what a 1:1 is for, what a good week looks like, and how we tell a struggling engineer from a struggling process.
EvolRed Team·
7 min read