krishnan, Author at The Geektrust Blog

The skill that was always the job

For decades, writing good code and judging good code looked like the same skill. If you could build it well,

I meet a lot of engineering leaders running large teams, and there are two questions I end up asking almost

Ask an engineering leader why they can’t just use a standardized evaluation for their hiring, and you will hear

Ten years ago, I sat across from an engineering leader at a mid-sized product company in Bengaluru. We were talking

“I will give you confirmed headcount and a PO for 12 months. Just fill up the roles for me.

In 2006, Amazon did something that had nothing to do with selling books. They took the infrastructure they’d built to

We built CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native systems to make software delivery reliable. Then we left the most important input –

In my previous post I wrote about the early days of Geektrust, when we weren’t thinking too deeply about branding.

And that’s the uncomfortable truth – one that no one sees. If you’re a recruiter, you probably know this intuitively,

As we get ready to roll out the third version of the Geektrust brand, I found myself looking back at