What Matters in Technical Hiring Skills? Previous Experience vs Problems Solved
A candidate once told me, almost apologetically, “I’ve never worked at a big-name company.”
Ten minutes later, he walked through how he stabilized a failing logistics platform handling thousands of real-time inventory updates during peak holiday traffic. No flashy terminology. No rehearsed interview script. Just calm, practical engineering thinking.
Meanwhile, another candidate with an impressive resume full of recognizable brands struggled to explain why a caching layer had repeatedly failed under load in a previous project.
That contrast sits at the center of one of the biggest debates in technical hiring today: