Leopard People/Talent Virtual Roundtable: 2026 Engineering Hiring Process Revamps 🏗️ (INVITE ONLY)
Join a small group of Talent and People Leaders from the Leopard Slack community for a low-key, 1-hour virtual roundtable focused on how folks are designing and updating their engineering hiring processes in 2026.
We’ll compare notes on:
🏗️ Designing technical interviews across coding, architecture, and product thinking
📝 Take-homes, practical assessments, and AI usage policies
🤖 AI tools, automation, and evolving technical hiring workflows
📉 Candidate dropoff, interview fatigue, and process length
🤝 Offer-stage challenges and improving close rates
& more
Bonus: Lexi also has some blog posts with notes from Eng Leaders & Engineers on their preferences on tech assessements https://leopard.fyi/blog/technical-assessment-trends-in-2026
And also eng offer closing do's and don'ts from Leopard clients https://leopard.fyi/blog/leopard-tips-for-startups-improving-the-engineering-offer-processes
And will share the notes and create any useful blog posts to aggregate the takeaways
Who is invited? Vetted People & Talent Leaders who believe in inclusivity in software engineering. Our 650+ members include leaders at Hugging Face, Signalfire, Distyl, Noom, Drivemode, Goalbook, Anrok, VC Talent Leaders and more.
Format:
First 20-30 minutes will be intros 👋, then moderated group discussion 💡.
Each person will briefly share (keep to <5 min) ⏰:
Name + Location
Company (what the business does, company size, and current hiring volume)
Current challenges in their interview process
During the 2nd half, Lexi will moderate a “popcorn-style 🍿” discussion around the areas of interest shared during intros.
Notes, tools, and prompts mentioned will be circulated afterwards in Slack 💬.
About Leopard.FYI: We connect women and non-binary senior software engineers to vetted companies with great cultures. Leopard gathers intel on company culture, compensation, gender diversity, interview processes, and more! We also run a free slack community for women/NB engineers (3500+ members) to share, connect, backchannel, mentor, and prepare for interviews together. We also work with 100+ active startups at a time & make intros to qualified candidates who are ready to interview.
Hiring engineers & struggling to build a slightly more diverse funnel? Leopard employer partnerships might be worth exploring! We've placed candidates at startups like LTK, Abridge, Weights and Biases, not to mention tons of early stage startups building our their early teams. We focus on helping clients fill Backend, Full Stack, Frontend, Infrastructure, DevOps, Machine Learning, Data Engineering and AI engineering roles. And we focus on working with candidates with experience in: Startup Experience, Scaling Experience, Modern Tech Stacks, 0→1 Builds, Hypergrowth, Early-Stage or Founding Roles.
For more info about partnerships or hosting Leopard community events, just grab time with Leopard's CEO Lexi : https://calendly.com/lexilewtan/30min (or email her lexi@leopard.FYI)