April 2026
The researcher wasn’t human
An AI operating autonomously just found a critical zero-day in enterprise software that had been audited for years. What that shift means for how you think about engineering depth.
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Engineering hiring.
Without the spin.
Honest writing on the US senior engineering market and what a different talent pool looks like.
March 2026
Why US companies can’t find senior engineers in 2026
The pipeline isn’t broken. It was designed for a different market. Here’s what’s actually happening and why the usual fixes aren’t working.
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What the US market actually looks for in a senior engineer
Job descriptions ask for the wrong things. Interviews test the wrong things. The engineers who thrive in US remote roles have a specific profile — and it’s not what most postings describe.
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The Prague-to-San Francisco salary gap
A senior Czech engineer earning $100K costs a US company less than a $160K US hire. The math isn’t about paying engineers less. It’s about what you stop paying around them.
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Why US companies can’t fill senior engineering roles in 2026
The senior hiring crisis isn’t a skills shortage. It’s a structural problem built over a decade of 18-month tenure cycles and a pipeline that was never designed to fill senior roles.
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The hidden cost of a $180K engineering hire
A $180K base salary engineer costs your company $260–290K when you add payroll tax, benefits, equity, and recruiter fees. Here’s the real math, line by line.
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How to price yourself for US tech companies from Prague
US companies don’t compare your rate to Czech salaries. They compare it to what a US engineer costs all-in. Once you understand that number, the rate conversation looks completely different.
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Why your seznam.cz email is killing your US job applications
ATS systems and US hiring managers read your email domain as a signal before they read a single line of your CV. If you’re applying with a seznam.cz address, you’re already starting behind.
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What CTU Prague actually produces — and why US tech hasn’t noticed yet
Czech Technical University has a 47% failure rate by design. It produces the engineers behind JetBrains, Avast, and Kiwi.com. US tech companies have almost no idea it exists.
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