Hiring
This is a technical knowledge base. Each entry answers its question in the first paragraph, explains the detail, then links it to what we test engineers for.
How long does it take to hire an offshore engineer
Hiring timelines for offshore software engineers vary by model. Staff augmentation is fastest, typically 3–6 weeks.
How many engineers do you need now
AI tools raise output per engineer, but team size depends on scope, quality requirements and how well your team uses those tools.
How do you assess an engineer's AI ability
This entry covers practical signals and interview approaches for checking whether a developer uses AI tools in production work as well as in demos.
Offshore development and the Dutch DBA law
How the Dutch DBA law applies to offshore software developers, what schijnzelfstandigheid means in practice, and how to structure compliant engagements.
What does a senior engineer cost in Vietnam
This entry covers market salary ranges for senior engineers in Vietnam, what you actually pay through a partner, and how that compares to hiring in the Netherlands.
Why take-homes and algorithm interviews stopped working
Why take-home assignments and algorithm interviews stopped filtering engineers, and the two working sessions that replaced them at Miyagami.
What is a software agency?
A software agency builds custom applications and digital products for client businesses. This entry covers what agencies do, how they work and what to look for.
What replaced the coding test
The traditional coding test is losing ground to task-based reviews and structured AI-tool sessions that better reflect how engineers actually work.
What we score with AI tools off
Inside Miyagami's fundamentals assessment: sixty minutes in an unseen codebase with no AI, six scored criteria, and why fundamentals license everything else.
What we score with the candidate's agents on
The six criteria Miyagami publishes for assessing AI-native engineers, from output verification to context-switch hygiene, and why the standard is public.
Writing code stopped being the hard part
Why the 10X engineer is observable again, what an AI-native engineer actually is, and why CVs, take-homes and tooling conversations can't tell them apart.
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