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I feel the need to push back on this meme. "Hiring is broken" for the same reason so many other things in this world are broken. Because in the end, hiring a
by cubano 11y ago
I feel the need to push back on this meme.
"Hiring is broken" for the same reason so many other things in this world are broken.
Because in the end, hiring a political decision, not a rational or technical one.
To get hired anywhere requires the consensus of, say, 2 to 6 people (maybe more!), and that becomes the realm of the political.
These people have to like you as well as think you can do the work as well as about 10 other things...
And in the end, unless the process is automated by AI, the decision will always be political-by-nature and thus subject to all the attendant issues that brings with.
And thus the process stays "broken" (whatever that really means) and will continue to resist all efforts to remake it.
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- eitally 11y agoI would argue that hiring isn't broken at all. It's WAI. I would also argue that WAI isn't good enough, and that too often stupid hire/no-hire decisions are made. Thirdly, the tooling that exists to facilitate the recruiting & onboarding processes are largely horrific. There's still space to make a bunch of money in this area.
- optimuspaul 11y agoit took me 3 minutes to figure out WAI meant, could you just spell out "Works as intended"? You aren't texting.
- mrep 11y agoI don't even know if "WAI" means "Works as intended" cause if so, then he is saying "It's WAI" which would correspond to "It's Works as intended" which would be super confusing grammer. Either way, you shouldn't use acronyms unless they're easy to understand and you know grammar.