Blog

Field notes on hiring & running Rails engineers.

One stack, done deeply — vetting, nearshore operations, and Ruby on Rails engineering, from the Railsmith team.

Vetting

How we vet a senior Rails engineer

No trivia, no take-home LeetCode. We drop candidates into a real, slightly gnarly Rails app and watch how they move. Here's what actually gets someone through — and what doesn't.

Nearshore

Time-zone overlap is a number, not a promise

"We work in your time zone" is marketing. Here's how we compute the actual daily overlap between a Brazilian engineer and your team — and why that number is on every shortlist.