State of Play
What we’re actually hearing across the Australian tech market. Written from real conversations with CIOs, CTOs, engineering leaders and the people they’re trying to hire.
Every edition, in one place. Second Tuesday of the month.
Nobody is saying hiring freeze. They’re saying think harder.
What leaders are saying behind closed doors. Why the cost conversation has moved from headcount to software, what AI is actually costing you per employee, and how to tell whether a candidate has really built on Snowflake or just worked near it.
- Hiring slowdown
- AI governance
- Cost per head
- Job ads
- Screening for depth
“We need AI engineers.” Quite a few companies still can’t explain what they mean.
The first edition. Why offshoring might not be as cheap as the spreadsheet says, whether anyone is actually paying extra for AI skills, a better way to run technical interviews, and the argument that now is a terrible time for good engineers to stop building.
- AI engineer briefs
- Offshoring maths
- Paying for AI skills
- Interviewing
- Staying on the tools
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State of Play goes out on the second Tuesday of every month. Six things, five minutes, written from conversations we’ve actually had rather than reports we’ve read.