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The draining side of running a business

What's quietly eating your week

Hiring sits near the bottom of founders' stress lists, while the measured costs of an open role and a rushed hire are among the largest a growing company carries. On why those costs rarely show up as hiring, and where they land instead.

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There is a manual for hiring across cultures. It's only 3 questions long.
The draining side of running a business

There is a manual for hiring across cultures. It's only 3 questions long.

Hiring across cultures comes with questions you didn't quite see coming. What's expected of you. What's expected of them. What you can joke about and what you can't. Whose job it is to flag a problem, and when. Somewhere between signing the contract and the first call, you realise: nobody handed

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What Software Developer Job Postings Are Really Telling Us
The draining side of running a business

What Software Developer Job Postings Are Really Telling Us

We track 1000s of software developer job postings daily across Northern Europe and North America at Tunga. And we talk to the CTOs and founders posting them. Many of those job postings describe an impossible person. A "Senior ML Engineer" position posted in January 2026 requires "5+ years experie

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