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10
2026
Where to find FPGA engineers in the UK
Quick answer: Most experienced FPGA engineers in the UK work in defence, space, semiconductors, telecoms and trading, with the main hotspots in Cambridge, Bristol, the Thames Valley and Edinburgh. Few are job hunting, so adverts rarely work. Look in
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10
2026
How long does it take to hire a firmware engineer?
Quick answer: Hiring a firmware engineer in the UK typically takes six to twelve weeks from brief to accepted offer. Add the candidate’s notice period, usually one to three months, and most firmware engineers start two to six months after you first d
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10
2026
How to hire great people below market rate
Not every company can pay top of market, and the salaries up there keep climbing. That doesn't mean you can't hire great people. It means you have to win them on something other than money. These are the tactics we'd use Offer fully remote F
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10
2026
How to be better at interviewing than 99% of companies
The bar for how companies treat people in interviews is low. Around 60% of candidates never hear back after an interview at all. Surveys reckon people now find that silence more frustrating than being ghosted after a first date. That's oddly good
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10
2026
How AI has changed recruitment
AI has changed how everyone works, and recruitment is no exception. Here's how we're seeing it change things day to day. None of it is robots deciding who gets hired. The judgement still sits with people. AI just does the legwork and gets us there
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10
2026
How to set up your LinkedIn profile
Every week we look at profiles that should be getting people hired and aren't. Usually it's not the person. It's the profile. Here's what we need to see, top to bottom, before we can do anything with yours. The top of your profile, decoded - p
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10
2026
How to Hire Embedded Engineers in the UK
Quick answer: Hiring embedded engineers in the UK in 2026 means competing for a small pool of specialists in a market where demand is outpacing supply. You have two routes. A permanent hire runs roughly £40,000 to £70,000 for mid to senior level, ris
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09
2026
The word hiring managers keep using without saying it
We talk to hiring managers every day, and the same handful of words keeps coming up: speed, urgency, progression, velocity, someone who gets on with it. Different words but same thing. What they're all searching for is high agency, someone who doesn'
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08
2026
Most developers aren't using AI to prep for interviews. Here's what they're missing.
We've given the same four pieces of advice to about seven people this week. All of them are smart, most of them are senior in fact. Every single one responded with some version of "oh, that's actually really useful." Which is mad, given these engi
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07
2026
Technical interviews don't work. They never did.
Google measured whether their interview scores predicted job performance. They found almost no correlation & they never published the results. That story comes from Steve Yegge, who's spent 35 years inside the hiring processes at Amazon and Google
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