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# Who Do We Hire Now?


- **Date:** Friday, Sep 25, 2026
- **Time:** 16:10–16:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

AI now does much of the work junior hires used to learn on, and hiring plans are changing fast: fewer entry-level roles, new skill profiles, and job descriptions rewritten mid-search. The old pipeline - hire juniors, grow seniors - is breaking, and nobody has agreed on what replaces it. How companies are rethinking who they hire, what they train, and where the next generation of senior engineers comes from.

## Speakers

### [Chris Daden](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@chris-daden)

CTO and Head of AI of Criteria
### [Ian Hughson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ian-hughson)

Global Managing Partner for Organizational Change & AI Adoption at TCS


## Related talks at this congress

- [Inside the AI-Native Engineering Org](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1858-inside-the-ai-native) — Hari Lingamagunta
- [The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1744-the-broken-rung-how) — Tomislav Tipurić
- [Building AI Products vs. Building With AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1841-building-ai-products) — Aparna Dhinakaran, Rukmini Reddy, Tamar Bercovici
- [Our Brains in the AI Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1872-our-brains-in-the-ai) — Cassidy Williams

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