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Most companies hire for trendy tools, but the real edge comes from engineers trained to think clearly and design for the long term. Haskell developers bring rigor, purity, and abstraction that elevate any team—whether or not you use Haskell.
You don’t have a talent shortage, you have a talent recognition problem. Great engineers are applying, but broken hiring processes that overvalue resumes, buzzwords, and whiteboard puzzles systematically filter them out while the best candidates choose companies with fairer, skills-based evaluations.
Codebases don’t rot because they grow—they rot because OOP and imperative habits reward patches over principles. Haskell enforces a declarative mindset that stops bloat at the root, keeping systems elegant and scalable as they evolve.
We argue that hiring should move beyond resumes and job boards toward curation, focusing on how engineers are shaped by mentorship, communities, and real projects. We explain how this approach produces developers who adapt faster, collaborate better, and create stronger long-term impact.
We argue that relying on job boards, LinkedIn, and agencies creates overwhelming noise that causes great candidates to be overlooked. Instead, we believe curated hiring—rooted in mentorship, project-based learning, and community—reveals the true signal: adaptable engineers with real-world impact.
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