Tech Hiring Made Crystal Clear · chapter 1: Welcome to the Verification Era
Filtering vs verification
2026-08-27
The 2015 funnel chooses from a pile of real CVs. The 2026 funnel faces a partly synthetic pile, so every stage carries a verification gate before taste matters again.
Below: the paragraph from the book that builds this idea, then the diagram itself (Figure 1.1), and a recap. About a minute of reading.
So the job got renamed. Hiring was filtering; it is now verification first, filtering second. Figure 1.1 shows the same funnel in both eras: the stages barely changed, but every stage now carries a gate, because the first question is no longer "who is best?" but "who is real?".
Recap
- The idea: The 2015 funnel chooses from a pile of real CVs.
- The picture: Figure 1.1, from chapter 1 ("Welcome to the Verification Era") of Tech Hiring Made Crystal Clear.
- Go deeper: the chapter builds this step by step, with recipes and sources at the end.
This diagram is one of many in Tech Hiring Made Crystal Clear.
Every chapter opens with the gist, draws the hard ideas, and ends with recipes and sources.
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