Tech Hiring Difficulty Index
How hard is it to hire a senior {stack} engineer in {region}? Score, salary band and a sane alternative.
Pick a stack and a region. We return a hiring-difficulty score, a planning salary band, an expected time-to-hire, and the region/stack combinations that would land you a similar engineer for less effort.
Sane alternates (similar engineer, easier hire)
Planning instrument — not a quote. Re-rank against your last three search outcomes before betting the quarter on it.
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Supply (talent pool size in the region), demand (job-postings velocity for the stack), seniority distribution (how thin the senior layer is), and English-overhead for cross-border hires. It is a planning instrument, not a quote — sanity-check against your own recent searches.
Why this number matters
The number that gets you funded is "we tried for 4 months and could not close anyone at this band." Bringing that number to the meeting before spending 4 months saves a quarter.
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