Why is tech hiring so hard? Hiring Manager Perspectives with Brian Jenney Ep #44

🚀 Why Tech Hiring is Broken (And How to Hack the System) 💡 The Secret They Don’t Want You to Know: "Tech interviews aren’t about proving you can code—they’re about answering one hidden question: ‘Can we trust you?’" Show Summary & Notes Is Further Below ☎️ Contact Zubin & Brian: - Parsity Inner Circle Program (https://parsity.io/inner-circle) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zubinpratap/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjenney - https://www.instagram.com/brianjenneycode - https://www.instagram.com/zubinpratap 👋👋👋 FREE LEARNING RESOURES 👋👋👋 💥 Career Change to Code - FREE Webinar at https://matchfitmastery.com 💥 YouTube Podcast https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPuklwJx5V3fpXiSD9CMh3RhPQTCSemj 💥 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WMi6AmVFjpmCpF95XjaBJ 💥 Before You Learn To Code -- Where to start? What to do? https://matchfitmastery.com/lifesaver 💥 Podcasts:, Blogs and Resources https://linktr.ee/zubinpratap 💥 Twitter: http://twitter.com/zubinpratap 🔥 The Pain: Ever bombed a technical interview despite "knowing your stuff"? Feel like AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot) make it impossible to stand out? Junior devs: Are you silently judged for how you solve problems—not just if you solve them? 🎯 The Agitation: Bootcamps and LeetCode grind won’t teach you the real hiring criteria (trust > trivia). AI is making hiring harder: "80% of candidates look identical on paper—until they open their mouths." ✨ The Solution Tease: The 3-word mindset shift that makes interviewers want to hire you (timestamp 12:00). Why "vibe coding" beats perfect code (and how to do it). Big Tech’s dirty secret: Their rubrics reward this over raw skill (17:30). ⏳ Timestamped Takeaways 🚨 [00:03:00] The AI Trap AI tools make you feel competent—until you hit a legacy codebase. Hiring hack: Use AI strategically (show you’re in control, not dependent). 🤝 [00:09:00] The Trust Equation Interviewers care about 3 things: Can you ask for help before wasting 3 days? Can you explain your reasoning out loud? Will you admit "I don’t know" (and how you’d find out)? 💥 [00:22:00] Likability > LeetCode "Your technical skills get you the interview—your personality gets you the job." Silent dealbreakers: Avoiding eye contact, robotic answers, or worse—silence. 📉 [00:28:00] The "Over-Indexing" Mistake Failed an interview because of one obscure question? Stop. "Most interviewers don’t even know what they’re testing for." 🎤 [00:33:00] The Camera Fix Do this today: Record yourself explaining code. "If you can’t teach it, you don’t know it." 🔑 Final Tip "Ask this question before every interview: ‘What type of interview is this?’ (Spoiler: 90% of candidates don’t.)"