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Everyone is Frustrated: A Candid Conversation About Tech Hiring
A panel with the people applying and the people screening, on what tech hiring really evaluates in 2026 and what each side can do differently.
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If you’re early in your career, the market feels like a wall: applications disappear, “entry-level” postings ask for three years, and nobody tells you why you were passed over.
This panel put both sides in the same room, the candidates and the people screening them, to get specific about how hiring decisions actually get made and which candidates the process is filtering out.
On the panel: Joel Varty (Agility CMS), Bermon Painter (Slalom), Brian Holt (Microsoft) and me.