Align hiring page with the current 12-category scoring rubric #109

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opened 2026-08-12 19:59:07 +00:00 by coilyco-ops · 0 comments

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The Trello Board Meta scoring rubric has moved ahead of src/hiring.njk. The board's own 🌐 PUBLIC CAREER SOURCES card names this page as the source of truth for role shape, location, compensation, employment, culture, values, first-contact context, and interview format, but the page no longer carries everything the rubric scores.

One item is an outright contradiction, the rest are gaps.

Contradiction

Structurally office-free companies. The rubric scores "no offices anywhere" at the category maximum, explicitly stronger than a hybrid role with a real Bay Area office. The hard gate is narrower than the page implies: it fires only when a company has offices and none are in the Bay Area. The page's "No Bay Area office is a hard stop" tells all-remote companies at the top of the preference ladder not to write.

Gaps to close

Sourcing: name the company, and direct founder or hiring-manager contact beats agency-mediated outreach.
Company stage and stability is scored, and small companies with credible traction are not penalized.
Developer-tooling companies where DevEx is the product sold to customers score in the top role-shape band.
Culture and operating fit outweighs compensation, title, and stack.
Representation and inclusion is its own criterion, including commitment rollbacks as a negative.
Technical environment matters less than the problem, and the resume is the only source for claimed background.
Hard-no verticals and an explicit values veto are flat gates, not soft drags.
Ownership: early-company breadth ranks above a first-platform-hire charter at an established company.
Staff is not automatically better than Senior.
Agent-first work includes agentic coding tools and platforms where agents are first-class users.
Bounded delivery includes modernization, platform control planes, and agentic operations.

Deliberately not published

Recruiter cadence and expiry timers stay internal board machinery. The FTE-client-services versus independent-contracting distinction stays a live-conversation topic. Hard-no verticals are named as a category without listing them.

Companion board change

The location rule also needs an offshore-only-offices band added to rubric category 1, since a US-remote company whose only office is overseas carries no return-to-office risk for a Bay Area engineer. That edit lands on Trello, not here.

The Trello Board Meta scoring rubric has moved ahead of `src/hiring.njk`. The board's own `🌐 PUBLIC CAREER SOURCES` card names this page as the source of truth for role shape, location, compensation, employment, culture, values, first-contact context, and interview format, but the page no longer carries everything the rubric scores. One item is an outright contradiction, the rest are gaps. ## Contradiction - **Structurally office-free companies.** The rubric scores "no offices anywhere" at the category maximum, explicitly stronger than a hybrid role with a real Bay Area office. The hard gate is narrower than the page implies: it fires only when a company has offices and none are in the Bay Area. The page's "No Bay Area office is a hard stop" tells all-remote companies at the top of the preference ladder not to write. ## Gaps to close - Sourcing: name the company, and direct founder or hiring-manager contact beats agency-mediated outreach. - Company stage and stability is scored, and small companies with credible traction are not penalized. - Developer-tooling companies where DevEx is the product sold to customers score in the top role-shape band. - Culture and operating fit outweighs compensation, title, and stack. - Representation and inclusion is its own criterion, including commitment rollbacks as a negative. - Technical environment matters less than the problem, and the resume is the only source for claimed background. - Hard-no verticals and an explicit values veto are flat gates, not soft drags. - Ownership: early-company breadth ranks above a first-platform-hire charter at an established company. - Staff is not automatically better than Senior. - Agent-first work includes agentic coding tools and platforms where agents are first-class users. - Bounded delivery includes modernization, platform control planes, and agentic operations. ## Deliberately not published Recruiter cadence and expiry timers stay internal board machinery. The FTE-client-services versus independent-contracting distinction stays a live-conversation topic. Hard-no verticals are named as a category without listing them. ## Companion board change The location rule also needs an offshore-only-offices band added to rubric category 1, since a US-remote company whose only office is overseas carries no return-to-office risk for a Bay Area engineer. That edit lands on Trello, not here.

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2026-08-12 20:00:04 +00:00

docs(hiring): widen role-shape signals to match the rubric

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2026-08-12 20:00:04 +00:00

docs(hiring): fix the location contradiction and publish what else is scored

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2026-08-12 20:00:53 +00:00

docs(hiring): align the hiring page with the current scoring rubric #110