#hiring
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Years are a bad unit
Experience is counted in years because years are cheap to verify. They measure elapsed time, which is not the same thing as accumulated practice.
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AI flattens the bottom of the talent curve, not the top
The discourse worries about top-end displacement; the actual market shift is that the floor is rising and mid-tier hires are getting harder to justify.
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Firing for fit is firing for your discomfort
The 'not a fit' justification is almost always the manager's failure to articulate what is actually missing, dressed up as a culture concern.
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What I look for in a design portfolio
Not the work itself. The captions, the gaps, and what gets left out.
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The hiring rubric that survives a year
Most design rubrics fail twelve months in because they grade for the interview, not for the role. Three criteria hold up.