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Hiring and Evaluation
How I separate confidence, seniority, experience, and actual engineering judgment.
Hiring breaks when interviews select for the wrong signal.
Confidence is not seniority. Familiarity with a technology is not ownership. Memorized architecture patterns are not system design judgment.
Good evaluation should expose how a person thinks under constraints: what they simplify, what they escalate, what risks they see, and what they intentionally choose not to solve yet.