Notes on hiring, honestly

Short pieces about where hiring actually stalls.

Written by the people building Krut. No customer case studies, on account of not having customers yet.

A printed Krut guide titled "EU Pay Transparency Directive: what it means for hiring teams", listing recruitment transparency, pay information, pay gap reporting, equal pay and remedies, with sticky notes reading "The deadline passed" and "Implementation is uneven".

The EU Pay Transparency Directive: what it means for hiring, in 2026

The deadline passed and implementation is uneven. What the directive actually requires of hiring teams, what a late country really means for a private employer, and what to fix first.

Aug 22, 20267 min read

A tablet showing the headline "Hiring speed dies in the handoffs, not in the decisions", with paper cards on the desk marking a yes on day one, then email, calendar and spreadsheet handoffs across nine days.

Speed isn't the pitch. It's what breaks first.

Everyone wants to hire faster. Almost nothing in a typical hiring stack was built for it. Here is where the time actually goes.

Aug 20, 20263 min read