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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai
really interesting startup
Hiring 1 hardware engineer takes roughly 50 hours of senior engineering time.
The rounds that test the real job come last.
Looks like @colareai is moving that test to the front.
Candidates do real work in CAD, PCB and FEA tools in the browser, proctored, and get scored on their trade-offs and reasoning as well as the final design, against rubrics engineers built for that specific role.
Congrats on the $2.5M pre-seed, @esthxrtho and @nain_abdi.
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We’ve raised a $2.5M pre-seed to fix hardware hiring.
The most reliable way to know if an engineer can do the job is to watch them work.
In hardware, that’s been almost impossible to do at scale.
Colare runs simulation-based assessments that show how candidates actually work, in the tools they’d use on the job, before anyone books an interview.
We assess across:
- Mechanical (CAD, DFM, FEA)
- Electrical (PCB, schematics)
- Systems
- Manufacturing, & more.
Candidates solve problems from first principles.
Hiring teams see that across their whole pool, so engineers only interview people who’ve already cleared the bar.
We're already working with everyone from seed-stage startups to multi-billion-dollar aerospace manufacturers.
If you’re hiring hardware engineers, let’s talk:
https://t.co/QGXxlg0QVh
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