€45,000 in recruiter retainers.
11 weeks post-raise.
Zero hires.
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2/ The actual bottleneck isn't finding talent—it's evaluating deep domain fit and mitigating the €150K–€300K cost of a mis-hire.
3/ The fix? Ditch static CVs and ad-hoc searches.
Move to Talent Engineering: outcome-based specs, domain rubrics, and owned hiring infrastructure.
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Your senior role has been open 90 days.
That's not a market problem. That's a process problem.
Senior engineers don't apply to job posts. They evaluate you before you know they're evaluating you.
The architecture for hiring people who aren't looking.
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Stop asking your recruiting team what the Time-to-Fill is for Senior Engineers.
120 days isn't a performance metric. It’s a structural failure.
You're running a hiring process built for a candidate who doesn't exist at the top of the skill distribution. 🧵👇
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Senior hiring requires an ongoing Talent Engineering architecture, not reactive panic when a requisition opens.
Map the signals.
Build warm paths.
Start with low-commitment conversations, not ATS forms.
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The market for senior engineers isn't empty—your visibility into it is just limited.
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