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

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Closes #109.

The Trello Board Meta scoring rubric had moved ahead of this page. The board's own PUBLIC CAREER SOURCES card names /hiring/ as the source of truth for role shape, location, compensation, employment, culture, values, first-contact context, and interview format, so anything the rubric scores and the page omits is a recruiter reading the wrong signal.

The contradiction this fixes

The page said "No Bay Area office is a hard stop." The rubric scores a company with no offices anywhere at the category maximum, explicitly stronger than a hybrid role with a real Bay Area office, because there is no office to be recalled to. The old wording turned away the single best arrangement on the ladder.

The hard stop now reads as US offices with none in the Bay Area, which is the satellite-recall case it was always meant to catch. Bay Area satellites of companies headquartered elsewhere pass, and so do companies whose only offices are overseas.

What else is now on the page

Two commits, split by theme.

Role-shape signals:

Developer tooling sold to customers scores in the same top band as internal platform work.
Agent-first work names agentic coding tools and platforms where agents are first-class users.
Bounded delivery names modernization, platform control planes, and agentic operations.
Ownership ranks early-company breadth above a first-platform-hire charter instead of merging them.
Staff is not automatically better than Senior.

Practical fit and two new sections:

Culture and operating fit outweighs compensation, title, and stack.
Representation and inclusion becomes its own criterion, rollbacks included.
Stack matching matters less than the problem, and the resume is the only source for claimed background. This one exists because a recruiter attributed a Rust and C plus plus background that the resume does not claim.
Verticals and product directions can be a flat no rather than a soft drag.
New "Company stage and stability" section: small companies are in scope, credible traction beats a large round, and runway and layoff history get read before a loop.
Name the company. Direct founder or hiring-manager contact beats agency-mediated outreach.

Deliberately left off

Recruiter cadence and expiry timers stay internal board machinery. The FTE-client-services versus independent-contracting distinction stays a live-conversation topic. Verticals are named as a category without being listed.

Verification

Content-only change inside existing markup, no new Nunjucks constructs, so the Cypress smoke check is skippable per AGENTS.md. Voice-linted: no em-dashes, no en-dashes, no semicolons, no italics. The two themed commits were split from a single reviewed diff and reproduce it exactly at 72 insertions and 16 deletions.

Companion board change, not in this PR

Rubric category 1 needs an offshore-only-offices band so the board and this page agree. That lands on Trello.

Closes #109. The Trello Board Meta scoring rubric had moved ahead of this page. The board's own `PUBLIC CAREER SOURCES` card names `/hiring/` as the source of truth for role shape, location, compensation, employment, culture, values, first-contact context, and interview format, so anything the rubric scores and the page omits is a recruiter reading the wrong signal. ## The contradiction this fixes The page said "No Bay Area office is a hard stop." The rubric scores a company with no offices anywhere at the category maximum, explicitly stronger than a hybrid role with a real Bay Area office, because there is no office to be recalled to. The old wording turned away the single best arrangement on the ladder. The hard stop now reads as US offices with none in the Bay Area, which is the satellite-recall case it was always meant to catch. Bay Area satellites of companies headquartered elsewhere pass, and so do companies whose only offices are overseas. ## What else is now on the page Two commits, split by theme. Role-shape signals: - Developer tooling sold to customers scores in the same top band as internal platform work. - Agent-first work names agentic coding tools and platforms where agents are first-class users. - Bounded delivery names modernization, platform control planes, and agentic operations. - Ownership ranks early-company breadth above a first-platform-hire charter instead of merging them. - Staff is not automatically better than Senior. Practical fit and two new sections: - Culture and operating fit outweighs compensation, title, and stack. - Representation and inclusion becomes its own criterion, rollbacks included. - Stack matching matters less than the problem, and the resume is the only source for claimed background. This one exists because a recruiter attributed a Rust and C plus plus background that the resume does not claim. - Verticals and product directions can be a flat no rather than a soft drag. - New "Company stage and stability" section: small companies are in scope, credible traction beats a large round, and runway and layoff history get read before a loop. - Name the company. Direct founder or hiring-manager contact beats agency-mediated outreach. ## Deliberately left off Recruiter cadence and expiry timers stay internal board machinery. The FTE-client-services versus independent-contracting distinction stays a live-conversation topic. Verticals are named as a category without being listed. ## Verification Content-only change inside existing markup, no new Nunjucks constructs, so the Cypress smoke check is skippable per AGENTS.md. Voice-linted: no em-dashes, no en-dashes, no semicolons, no italics. The two themed commits were split from a single reviewed diff and reproduce it exactly at 72 insertions and 16 deletions. ## Companion board change, not in this PR Rubric category 1 needs an offshore-only-offices band so the board and this page agree. That lands on Trello.

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docs(hiring): widen role-shape signals to match the rubric 33dbb53b60

Developer tooling sold to external customers scores in the same top
band as internal platform work, so the developer-experience bullet no
longer reads internal-only.

Agent-first work gains agentic coding tools and internal platforms
where agents are first-class users. Bounded delivery gains
modernization, platform control planes, and agentic operations.

Ownership now ranks early-company breadth above a first-platform-hire
charter rather than treating them as one case, and role shape says
plainly that Staff is not automatically better than Senior.

Refs #109

Co-authored-by: Kai Siren <coilysiren@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs(hiring): fix the location contradiction and publish what else is scored d9bd3ec37a

The location rule said no Bay Area office was a hard stop, which turned
away the arrangement that actually scores highest. A company with no
offices anywhere carries no return-to-office risk, so it now leads the
ladder. The hard stop narrows to US offices with none in the Bay Area,
which is the satellite-recall case it was always meant to catch. Bay
Area satellites and overseas-only offices both pass.

Also newly stated, all of it already scored and none of it previously
on the page:

- Culture and operating fit outweighs compensation, title, and stack.
- Representation and inclusion is its own criterion, and a company
  walking its commitments back is a mark against it.
- Exact stack matching matters less than the problem, and the resume is
  the only source for what I claim.
- Some verticals and product directions are a flat no rather than a
  soft drag.
- Company stage and stability gets a section: small companies are in
  scope, credible traction beats a large round, and runway and layoff
  history are things I read before spending a loop.
- Name the company. Direct founder or hiring-manager contact gets a
  faster reply than agency-mediated outreach.

Recruiter cadence and expiry timers stay internal on purpose.

Refs #109

Co-authored-by: Kai Siren <coilysiren@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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