Glossary
Technical Vetting
The process of verifying a candidate’s real skills through assessments, work samples, and structured interviews before they join your team.
Technical vetting is how you confirm that a candidate can actually do the work — through practical assessments, code or work-sample review, and structured interviews that probe real problem-solving rather than trivia.
For remote hiring at scale, vetting is what separates a marketplace of résumés from a pool of people you can trust with production systems. Good vetting checks depth in the core skill, breadth around it, and signals like communication and ownership.
The payoff of strong upfront vetting is a much higher placement success rate and far less time lost to mis-hires.