Why yesnohire exists
I once hired a senior analyst. He passed every stage. Strong resume, solid hard skills, reasonable answers — everything checked out. Something about him felt off during the interviews, but I couldn’t put it into words. Deadlines were burning, so I hired him anyway.
He turned out to be a mid-level specialist doing a very good impression of a senior one. Five weeks in, right after his first paycheck, he stopped answering. Calls, messages — silence. Gone.
That “something feels off” was a signal. I just had no way to decode it.
Who I am
My name is Vadym Radionov. I’ve spent 10+ years in product, most recently as Head of Product, building a team from zero. I’ve hired analysts, designers, data scientists, product managers — even C-level. I’ve been the hiring manager in more interviews than I can count.
Some of those hires were great. Others cost me months of work and tens of thousands of dollars. I’m not building yesnohire because I spotted a market opportunity. I’m building it because I kept falling into the same hole — and I know exactly how it feels.
Why interviews keep failing
Impressions lie. A charismatic candidate is not the same as a competent one. Interviews reward people who talk well, not people who work well.
Same answer — opposite verdicts. Without shared criteria, the evaluation depends on who was listening and what mood they were in.
Foreign domain — blind spot. When you hire outside your own expertise, you can’t judge depth. You can only judge confidence.
Every one of these has cost me real money. Not metaphorically — actual money. If you’re curious what a bad hire costs you, there’s a calculator for that.
Where I stand on AI
I’m building an AI product, and I don’t believe AI should decide who you hire.
yesnohire doesn’t give verdicts. It listens, scores answers against consistent criteria, flags the moments where a candidate drifts into vague territory, and suggests what to dig into next. The decision is yours — and it stays yours.
On data: interviews are sensitive. Your recordings and transcripts exist for you, not for me — and you can delete them anytime.
Built solo, built in the open
I’m building this alone and in public. I write about hiring — mostly about my own mistakes — on LinkedIn.
If you hire people and something here resonates, write to me. I read everything.