Hiring in 2023 is not like hiring in 2021.

Thanks to the global economy, headcounts are flat or barely increasing. You have to be more strategic in your hiring plans and processes. And every hire matters more.

A former engineering leader at Amazon recently shared his secret attribute for amazing senior+ engineers: their ability to “learn by Roomba.” (Stay with us.)

An annoying thing about watching a Roomba is it seems to randomly bounce around. But somehow, your floor gets cleaned.

The most impactful engineers all have this magic ability to bounce around and somehow solve the problem. They take a complex, unfamiliar, ambiguous problem and instead of getting stuck on where to start, they explore it.

Other engineers might be smarter — but without this quality, they’re less effective. They don’t know where to start. They get stuck.

Instead, the people that have this secret quality activate Roomba mode. They start moving around. As a result, they actually make progress.

Now is the time to find those folks. How?

By digging into the data.

There’s one perk to hiring in 2023 and that is data. Al