John Roche, director at AQ Metrics in Dublin and a 30-year veteran of the tech industry, gives a behind-the-scenes look at why the current technical interview is broken and what founders should do instead. In this episode of Chaos To Clarity, John shares why he calls tech interviews ”garbage,” why they test the wrong thing, and how AI has rewired the hiring equation.

He also unpacks why a team of A players will explode in two months, why founders should tell engineers the problem and never the solution, the three clarities every team needs before the next hire, and the painful scaling moment that took him from 40 reports to 250 in two years. John was one of the leaders inside Fenergo, the third Irish tech unicorn, during its scale from 80 people to over 1,000. He was at Regnology for four years after that and Adobe before all of it.