Insights
Field notes on hiring, from the inside.
What actually happens inside a search, before it gets smoothed into a case study. Organised by the question each pattern answers. No client named or identifiable without permission.
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Four patterns I keep seeing. Filter by the one you're living through.
A Sales Director role sat open for five months. The job description wasn't the problem.
The seven-round interview loop was quietly killing every strong candidate before an offer ever went out.
The DiagnosisJul 2026Why sending more CVs is almost never the right next step.
The default response to a stalled search almost always makes the real problem worse.
From the InsideJul 2026The best hiring manager I ever worked with rejected a perfect CV. Here's why she was right.
On paper, the candidate was the strongest applicant in six months. She said no in the first ten minutes.
From the InsideJul 2026I once watched a great offer get declined over forty thousand rupees. It was never about the money.
The number on the table wasn't the real reason the candidate walked.
The Market ReadJul 2026What Series B companies in Bangalore are actually paying for a Head of Sales right now.
A quick benchmarking note from searches run this quarter, not a salary survey, a pattern from the room.
The Market ReadJul 2026The counter-offer math most founders get wrong.
A retention counter-offer usually buys less time than the person making it thinks.
Teams That StayJul 2026Attrition isn't a recruitment metric. Everyone treats it like one anyway.
The team most responsible for who leaves is rarely the team measured on it.
Teams That StayJul 2026The one interview question that predicts whether a hire stays past year one.
Not a values question. Not a case study. Something much more specific.