Every quarter we sit down with hiring managers from companies that employ our alumni. This time we made it formal: 47 managers, 23 companies, three cities, one hour each.
1. Frameworks matter less than fundamentals
Eighty percent of managers said they’d happily hire someone who knew vanilla JavaScript and SQL deeply over someone who’d shipped three React side-projects.
2. Communication eats technical skill for breakfast
“I can teach React. I can’t teach someone how to write a Slack message that doesn’t make me want to scream.”
— Engineering Manager, Cape Town fintech
3. The ‘portfolio’ is mostly theatre
What they want is one project — one — that you can talk about for 45 minutes. Decisions you made, things you got wrong, what you’d do differently.
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