May Hiring Update

[rsyring]

Good morning, here is a brief update on where we stand in our hiring
efforts in early May:

• We have hired one senior dev and intend to hire another 1-2
  developers this year. One soon(ish) and probably one later this year.
• In April, we've been focusing on senior level candidates. I believe
  we've processed all candidates that applied through the end of April
  but have not yet started on May submissions.
• Mid-level: we have been reviewing submissions that come in and
  sending out questionnaires but have not yet scheduled any Technical
  Interviews
• Due to AI, our pre-technical-interview skills assessments are no
  longer reliable in helping us get the best candidates to the
  Technical Interview stage. That means we are scheduling a fair
  number of candidates for Technical Interviews that are failing the
  basic skills tests in those interviews and, perhaps, shouldn't have
  applied in the first place.
  • This is lowering our throughput and increasing the time and
    effort it takes to review candidates and get them to a more
    thorough Skills Test
  • We will likely try and add some kind of pre-tech-interview
    screen back into the process in May
• We've had a handful of candidates go through our revised skills test process. We
  are working to assess the validity of the test and calibrate our
  evaluation to see if we can find signal in the results that points
  to the candidate being a good match for success at Level 12.
  Accounting for AI usage is, again, complicating this evaluation and
  calibration effort.
• Due to our uncertainty around our skills tests, we are prioritizing
  the application of candidates who are able to do a 4-6 week
  evaluatory contract-to-hire period.

Based on what I have seen from our efforts in April, I'm going to be
making the following changes in our evaluation criteria:

• Recent and significant Python experience is becoming a harder
  requirement. Our skills tests all assume it and, more importantly,
  we need candidates who can hit the ground running on Python projects
  from day 1 of joining our team.
• We are going to pass on candidates who are not living/working in
  US/American timezones.

Thanks for your interest in Level 12.

[Rakshan0004]

https://rakshan-3-d-portfolio.vercel.app/

i am looking for a new opportunity

[rachelgruber]

Hi Chintala - if you'd like to be considered and meet our requirements, please complete the application process outlined here for the position you're interested in: https://level12.io/careers/

[solify-dev]

Hi.
I'm so interested.
I'm a full-stack, blockchain developer