It’s a complicated time to be hiring software engineers. In some industries, tech hiring hasn’t fully recovered from its 2022 slump. In others—like AI—demand for specialized technical talent is surging. In fact, 63 percent of senior executives are concerned about the shortage of qualified engineering talent.

The result for your technical hiring team is this:

• Engineering teams are stretched thin by spending too much time interviewing unqualified candidates. This often happens when you have a high volume of applicants for an early career role, and you’re relying on resume review as your initial screening step. Resume review allows a high proportion of unqualified candidates to advance to the interview stage, while at the same time filtering out candidates who have the right skills but may not have the “right” credentials on their resume.

• Recruiting teams with limited resources struggle to source qualified talent for AI and other specialized engineering roles. Employers today are in fierce competition for talent with skills in AI, ML, and other highly specialized technical areas. Compared to hiring for early career talent, it can be even more challenging for your hiring team to gauge how qualified these senior-level candidates are—especially early in the hiring process—given their specialized skill sets. 

• Candidates are frustrated with what’s often a slow and cumbersome recruiting process. Even when recruiters source qualified candidates and get them into your recruiting process, you may lose top candidates to other employers if your process is too slow or offers a poor candidate experience.

That’s why we put together the Technical Hiring Playbook to help you streamline your technical hiring to improve the process for engineers, recruiters, and candidates. 

This guide is based on CodeSignal’s experience working with hundreds of top-tier companies (like Uber, Meta, and Anthropic) to transform their hiring process to build exceptional technical teams, without burning out their recruiters or current engineers.

Download the Technical Hiring Playbook to learn:

• Best practices for junior- and senior-level engineering hiring at each stage of the recruiting funnel
• How to slash engineering time spent on recruiting by more than 60%
• Ways to reduce bias and improve candidate experience in tech hiring
• New solutions for managing the impact of generative AI on coding assessments 
• How a leading tech company optimized their tech recruiting process

Whether you’re hiring for early career developer roles with a high volume of applicants, sourcing candidates for just a few specialized engineering roles, or both, the Technical Hiring Playbook takes you step-by-step through best practices for hiring the right talent, faster and with fewer resources. Get the guide to learn more.

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