The Messa Team - Messa - See talent clearly. Built on a hiring playbook.

Sign in Subscribe

Joshua March on the Who Method, Yellow Flags, and Why Most Interview Questions Are Useless

In our “We Have Questions” series, we talk to CEOs, leaders, and professionals who are exceptionally good at hiring, or have strong opinions about how it should be done. This installment: Joshua March, founder and CEO of Veritus Agent (YC S25), an AI agent platform for the consumer lending industry.

Forget Guesswork: Use These 5 Interview Styles to Hire Smarter

Plus a cheat sheet to help you build your next interview loop. Why Interviewing Needs a Rethink In our last post, we talked about how most interviews are still stuck in the past — vague questions, conflicting feedback, and too much reliance on gut feel. Since then, we’ve been working

The job interview hasn’t changed in 100 years… It’s time.

We’ve upgraded everything else about hiring—except the part that matters most. 💡 From Lightbulbs to Zoom Calls—Interviews Haven’t Evolved Much The job interview wasn’t always part of hiring. Before the 20th century, people mostly got jobs through family ties, apprenticeships, or by simply showing up. If

Public Interest

When Instinct Replaces Process, Great Talent Walks

You’ve just wrapped up a “great” interview. The candidate was sharp, asked thoughtful questions and seemed like a perfect fit. Brutal reality check: there’s a 77 % chance they’ll walk before anyone on your team says “offer.” Why? Your hiring loop is caught in a 24-day death

The Amazon VP Who Interviewed Hundreds Reveals His #1 Interview Rule

Neil Roseman spent years as Technology VP at Amazon and Zynga, interviewing hundreds of engineers. His biggest frustration? Interviewers who ask questions they can't properly evaluate. "One of the things that really pisses me off is people asking questions that they don't even have a

Why Your Interview Team Can't Agree on Candidates

You just finished a debrief for a senior developer role. Your lead engineer loved the candidate's system design approach. Your product manager thought they lacked communication skills. Your CTO questioned their cultural fit. Same candidate. Same two-hour interview process. Three completely different assessments. This isn't

Your Interview Process Is Bleeding Talent

You just lost your ideal senior engineer. Not because your offer was low or your tech stack was outdated, but because your interview process felt like amateur hour. Here's the brutal reality: top technical talent interviews you as much as you interview them. When your process is inconsistent,

The Feedback Gap isn’t a Joke

You just spent three hours interviewing a promising senior developer. They didn't get the role, but they nailed the system design portion and asked brilliant questions about your architecture. What happens next? If you're like most technical teams, you send a generic rejection email and move