We rejected a strong engineer for finishing a take-home too fast. That mistake rebuilt our entire interview loop — and settled the fundamentals-versus-outcomes debate for me.
Jigar Panchal
The writing was never my bottleneck — the plumbing was. How Byline, IndiaNIC's open-source MCP server, took the last mile of publishing off my desk across two Ghost blogs.
Jigar Panchal
We rejected a strong engineer for finishing a take-home too fast. That mistake rebuilt our entire interview loop — and settled the fundamentals-versus-outcomes debate for me.
Jigar Panchal · 19 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
The writing was never my bottleneck — the plumbing was. How Byline, IndiaNIC's open-source MCP server, took the last mile of publishing off my desk across two Ghost blogs.
Jigar Panchal · 11 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
We rejected a strong engineer for finishing a take-home too fast. That mistake rebuilt our entire interview loop — and settled the fundamentals-versus-outcomes debate for me.
Jigar Panchal · 19 Aug 2026
Jigar Panchal · 11 Aug 2026
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