Small senior teams with end-to-end authority: you design it, build it, ship it, and carry the pager for it. No utilization targets, no account managers between you and the client.
45 minutes with an engineer from the team you'd join — not a recruiter screen.
Walk us through a system you built and owned. No whiteboard puzzles, no leetcode.
A half-day scoped problem from a real (anonymized) engagement. Paid at contractor rate.
Decision within 48 hours of the work sample. Full comp bands shared up front.