Jacob Fiore

Founder @ DevRize. Placing engineers at top-tier startups.
Half my job is telling founders their job description is wrong.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@StealthQE4 This guy doesn't even talk about the technicals of this "bubble"
nothing about earnings that are actually driving the AI investment. This is not a bubble. The hype actually has earnings behind it and the valuations are adjusting accordingly 📈

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

recruiter: 'the role is fully remote'

also the recruiter: 'with mandatory in-office collaboration days 3x a week'

that's called a hybrid job. we have a word for it.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

interviewer: 'where do you see yourself in 5 years?'

candidate: 'idk where do you see this company in 5 years?'

interviewer: *sweating*

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

job description: "rockstar engineer who thrives in ambiguity"

translation: we have no idea what we need but we'll know it when we see it

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@GergelyOrosz from the recruiting side, buyouts create better outcomes for everyone. laid-off engineers carry a stigma into their next search whether they deserve it or not. someone who took a buyout? they chose to leave. completely different energy in interviews

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@daltonc same with hiring. every founder thinks building the team will be the easy part. 'we just need two senior engineers.' six months later they're on call #47 with me wondering why nobody wants $120k and a dream.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@jasonlk same thing happens with hiring. company says 'we need AI engineers' then writes a job description that's really just a backend role with 'AI' in the title. the ones winning are rebuilding the role from scratch, not renaming the old one.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@archiexzzz this is why the best startups i work with stopped posting jobs entirely. they headhunt 5 people instead of sorting through 500 AI-generated resumes. smaller pipeline, better hires, faster close.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@SergioRocks the founders who figure this out first will have an unfair advantage for the next 5 years. hiring is a skill, not a task you hand off to HR.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@TechLayoffLover this is why the best engineers don't trust loyalty anymore. they saw what happened to the 340 and started interviewing the next day.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@TechLayoffLover 15 years is a long run. the recruiters leaving aren't the ones who couldn't hack it, they're the ones who cared too much to keep pretending the process isn't broken.

the best engineers i place still come through human conversations, not ATS filters.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@ChrisJBakke the funniest part of crypto is watching courts treat venture returns like savings bonds. $200K in, $2B unrealized, liquidated for $200K. somewhere a founder is screaming.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@GergelyOrosz this is going to be way better than it sounds. the engineers who take the buyout and land at startups will 10x their growth in 2 years. the ones who stay will wonder why they didn't leave sooner. i've placed both. the buyout takers always win.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@vasuman forward deployed is the hardest role to hire for because the job description sounds like 3 different jobs. the best candidates self-select out before they even apply. you need someone selling the vision, not the role.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@TechLayoffLover 14 years in recruiting and this hits hard. the best recruiters aren't just filling roles, they're changing people's lives. the industry is going through it right now but the ones who actually care about the match will always have a seat at the table.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

founder: "we need a 10x engineer"
me: "ok what's the budget"
founder: "$120k base, no equity"
me: "so you need a 1x engineer"

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

"How did you know it was time to quit your job?"

I started recruiting on the side of my finance job. Just to see if I could.

A couple placements later, I made more than my next 6 months of salary.

I put in my two weeks that Friday.

I didn't "take a leap." I used a calculator.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@cleanwithmike clean

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

*almost* unbelievable how this is legal

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Banks pay you 0.4% interest on your deposits, then take your money & put it at the Fed, which pays them 5% interest on your money.

Federal law bars you from cutting out the middleman & depositing your money at the Fed to get the 5% rate the Fed pays banks.

This is oligarchy.

[Jacob Fiore @Jacob_Fiore7]

@coleruudjohnson 10k