You got the resume and thought you had almost found the right candidate. And suddenly, they accepted somewhere else. This happens constantly, and it’s just one of the tech hiring mistakes quietly draining the candidate pool before
A startup in Austin needs a senior backend engineer. Locally, there are maybe three candidates, and all of them already have counteroffers. So they open the search globally: Lisbon, São Paulo, Bangalore. Three weeks later, they’ve hired
Monday morning, three call-outs, schedule already thin. Payroll just flagged seventeen hours of surprise overtime. And a client’s waiting because the wrong person got assigned to their account. Nobody panicked. Nobody messed up on purpose. The system
Three senior developers needed by Monday. Last time? Eleven weeks to hire. Deadline missed. That story isn’t rare; it’s a normal week for most tech companies right now. That’s why more businesses in 2026 are stepping back
