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Why Inverting Binary Trees Won't Save Your Database: Testing Distributed Systems Competence (Practitioner Field Guide)

When a Postgres connection pool drains at 2 a.m. under cascading row locks, nobody cares about LeetCode medium questions. Here is how modern engineering leaders evaluate distributed state, idempotency, and recovery in senior candidates.

Marcus Vance
Marcus Vance
Head of Talent Architecture
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AI in Recruitment
8 min read

The Resume Inversion: Why AI-Generated CVs Broke Keyword ATS Filters

Candidates now use autonomous LLMs to blast 400 perfectly tailored resumes per hour. When every CV scores 98% on legacy keyword matchers, here is how modern engineering leaders identify genuine technical builders.

AI Candidate ScreeningResume Screening
Sarah Jenkins
Sarah Jenkins
Oct 9, 2026
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