Anonymous. Experienced. Still inside.

I still work as a hiring manager. I have been one for 14 years. I have personally hired over 500 people and rejected thousands more. I have sat through 3,000 interviews and reviewed 40,000 resumes.

I am not going to tell you my name. I am not going to tell you where I work. If my employer found out I was writing this, I would face serious consequences. The evaluation frameworks, the scoring rubrics, the internal shorthand we use to sort candidates in seconds — none of this is supposed to be public.

I am making it public anyway.

The hiring process is broken. Candidates are told to "be themselves" and "let their experience speak for itself" while hiring managers use structured scoring systems that evaluate something completely different. The gap between what candidates think matters and what actually matters is enormous. And it is kept that way on purpose.

I started this site because I got tired of watching good people lose to bad systems. Everything here is what I know from the inside — what I evaluate, how I decide, what makes me say yes and what makes me say no.

You are not supposed to have this information. Now you do.