Hiring on real coding skill, campus signal, and building Tierones — written for Tier-1 students and the startups that hire them.
A study of 484 Microsoft developers found coding at 11% of the actual workweek. Here's what a Codeforces rating does and doesn't tell a startup founder.
Read more →Researchers found 6 million suspected fake stars across 18,617 repos. Here's what a student should build instead — and why one real user beats five tutorial repos.
Read more →Gem's data on 165M applications shows interviews per hire up 33% since 2021. A startup under 25 people burns 21 interviewer hours on one technical hire.
Read more →CoderPad's 2026 survey of ~650 people found 66% of hiring leaders look for candidates who catch and fix AI mistakes. Here is how to build that into proof.
Read more →Research on 4,492 managers found 62% of rating variance came from the rater and 21% from actual performance. Here is how to run the end-of-internship call.
Read more →India's own government internship pays a minimum of ₹9,000 a month. The average US intern earns $23.35 an hour. Here is how to read a stipend offer properly.
Read more →Students at campuses with 150+ recruiters are 2.9x likelier to be placed. Here is what off-campus internship hiring actually is, and how to work it.
Read more →Indian placement cells run one cycle a year, for the graduating batch, with a one-offer rule. Here is why US startups hire off-campus, and how to do it.
Read more →54,378 qualified for 18,160 IIT seats. The selection already happened. Your cost is evaluation — and six minutes of video removes most of it.
Read more →35% of hiring managers have had someone else show up to a virtual interview. A six-minute code walkthrough is the cheapest proof the work is yours.
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