Haystack

Recruitment agencies and Haystack both help you hire. That is where the similarity ends 👀 Agencies take weeks and are incentivised to fill roles fast, not find the right person. Haystack matches you to pre-vetted candidates within 24 hours, books interviews within 48 and fills most roles in 21 days, with a 5:1 match to hire ratio. Swipe through to see exactly what makes the difference and drop a comment if you have ever hired through an agency and wished there was a better way 👇 #TechHiring #Recruitment #HiringStrategy #TalentAcquisition #Tech #Technology

Happy Wednesday, techies! 👋 This week's Haystack Digest is live and it is a lot 😅 An ex-Google DeepMind researcher quit and warned the world that AI could kill us all, The White House is blocking any rules that might slow it down, Samsung Electronics is funding a NVIDIA chip rival and Musk is still fighting Open Al court because some rivalries simply never end. We also have some brilliant roles this week including Software Engineer, Global Cybersecurity Manager, and Implementation Engineer, all worth checking out 👇 Oh and we have three trivia questions this week. Drop your answers in the comments and let us know which story caught your eye 🧠 #HaystackDigest #TechNews #AI #OpenAI #Nvidia #Samsung #Hiring #TechJobs #Newsletter

For the past couple of weeks our newsletter has been mentioning the story of OpenAI hacking Hugging Face. We touched on it briefly but never really dug into what actually happened or what it means for the future of AI 👀 So we made a full breakdown. What is Hugging Face? How did the models escape? What did they do when they got out? And the question the entire AI world is still debating, was this a genuine safety failure or a very well timed publicity stunt? Swipe through for the full story and drop your verdict in the comments 👇 #AI #OpenAI #HuggingFace #AISafety #TechNews

Not every career move that looks like a step back is one. 👀 Some of the best decisions in tech look wrong on paper and right in hindsight. Going back to individual contributor after management. Leaving a big company for a smaller salary at a startup. Taking a sideways move that nobody else understood at the time. The moves that feel like regression often have one thing in common. They prioritise learning, ownership and long term positioning over short term optics. Swipe through and drop a comment with the career move that looked like a step back but turned out to be the best decision you made 👇 #TechCareers #CareerAdvice #SoftwareEngineering #CareerGrowth #Hiring #Haystack

Diverse tech teams outperform homogeneous ones. The most common objection is that diversity hiring means compromising on quality. It does not. The bar does not lower. The pipeline gets wider. Six things that actually move it: 1. Fix the job description first. Culture fit, unnecessary degree requirements, you are filtering people out before they apply. 2. Expand where you source. Same universities, same boards, same referral networks, same hires. 3. Structure your interviews. Consistent questions, clear criteria, diverse panels. 4. Hire for culture add, not culture fit. What does this person bring that we do not already have? 5. Focus on retention as much as hiring. Diverse hiring without inclusive culture is a revolving door. 6. Track the data at every stage. Where the drop off is, that is where the bias lives. Fix the stage, not the candidate. What has your company done to build a more diverse engineering team? Drop it in the comments 👇 Swipe through the carousel for the full breakdown. #TechHiring #DiversityInTech #EngineeringLeadership #Recruitment #Hiring

Happy Wednesday, techies! 👋 This week's Haystack Digest is live and NVIDIA is running the entire AI industry now 👀 NVIDIA acquired Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion and has quietly built a $99 billion AI investment portfolio backing everyone from OpenAI to Anthropic. OpenAI meanwhile unleashed its most dangerous model yet with a cyber rating so alarming it is only available to vetted professionals. Anthropic is fighting Chinese labs stealing its models through dark web marketplaces and Mistral just became Europe's most valuable AI company with Samsung Electronics leading the charge. Oh and we have three trivia questions this week that will genuinely test you 🧠 Plus we have some brilliant roles worth checking out on Haystack this week 👇 Drop a comment with your trivia answers and let us know which story caught your eye this week 👀 #HaystackDigest #TechNews #Nvidia #OpenAI #Anthropic #Mistral #AI #Hiring #TechJobs #Newsletter

Good engineers write code that works. Great engineers do something else entirely. Technical skill gets you in the room. It is rarely what keeps you there, and it is almost never what gets you noticed. What actually separates the two: 1. They make the people around them better. They share context freely, document without being asked and leave codebases cleaner than they found them. Their impact multiplies beyond their own output. 2. They communicate as well as they code. Explaining a complex decision to a non technical stakeholder without losing the nuance is not a soft skill. It is a force multiplier. 3. They ask why before they ask how. Good engineers build what they are asked to build. Great engineers question whether it should be built at all. 4. They are comfortable being wrong. They change their mind when the evidence changes and move on faster than anyone else. Ego is the enemy of great engineering. 5. They do the unglamorous work. Documentation. Testing. Refactoring. Onboarding. The work that never shows up in a demo. 6. And they know when not to build. The hardest engineering decision is often choosing to do less. None of this shows up on a CV. All of it shows up in a team. What do you think separates a good engineer from a great one? Drop it in the comments 👇 Tech hiring without the hassle → https://haystackapp.io/ #SoftwareEngineering #TechCareers #EngineeringCulture #TechHiring #CareerAdvice

Same role. Same skills. Completely different mindset. The contract vs permanent decision usually gets framed as a question about money and notice periods. It isn't. It's a question about how you want to work. Permanent employees think long term. Culture, relationships, the slow build of institutional knowledge. Contractors think in outcomes: solve a specific problem, deliver a defined scope, move on. Permanent employees climb. Contractors collect. And the shift most people underestimate: going contract means you are no longer an employee. You are a business. Taxes, pipeline, reputation, professional development, all yours. The contractors who struggle are usually the ones who never fully made that mental switch. Neither path is better. They're just different modes of working. Are you a contractor or permanent? Which mindset resonates more with you? Drop it in the comments 👇 Tech hiring without the hassle → https://haystackapp.io/ #Contracting #TechCareers #TechHiring #ContractVsPermanent #CareerAdvice

The best candidates are not on job boards. They are not refreshing LinkedIn. They are not even looking. Only about 30% of the workforce is actively job hunting at any given time. The other 70% are employed, comfortable and not applying to anything. That does not mean they would not move for the right opportunity. It means you have to go to them. And they are usually the better hire. Passive candidates are not applying to fifty roles at once or inflating their experience to get any offer. When they move, it is because the opportunity was genuinely compelling. Five things that actually work: 1. Build before you need. The worst time to start sourcing is when a role opens. 2. Go where they already are. Open source, meetups, Substack, Slack and Discord communities. Show up before you need anything from them. 3. Let your employer brand do the work. Share what your team is building. Talk about your culture honestly. The right people notice. 4. Use platforms built for passive talent. Most job boards only surface active candidates. This is the segment traditional recruiting consistently misses. 5. Move fast and make it personal. A generic InMail gets ignored. A specific, human message gets a reply. What is the best sourcing strategy you have ever used or seen? Drop it in the comments 👇 #TechHiring #Sourcing #TalentAcquisition #Recruitment #EmployerBrand

Happy Wednesday, techies! 👋 This week's Haystack Digest is live and NVIDIA is absolutely everywhere 👀 NVIDIA is powering retail delivery with OneRail, buying into MediaTek for $3.5 billion and indirectly causing chaos after Musk's SpaceX acquired Cursor and OpenAI immediately cut off its model access. Meanwhile OpenAI built a $1 billion ad business in under 200 days and Marvell Technology grew revenue 37% and still got punished by the market because Wall Street had already priced in perfection. Oh and we have three trivia questions this week including one that will genuinely stump you 🧠 Plus we have some brilliant roles worth checking out on Haystack this week 👇 Drop a comment with your trivia answers and let us know which story caught your eye this week 👀 #HaystackDigest #TechNews #Nvidia #OpenAI #SpaceX #Musk #Hiring #TechJobs #Newsletter