In my experience, hiring is the most political act a company does, meaning individual goals very often take priority over company goals. Well above avoiding mi

In my experience, hiring is the most political act a company does, meaning individual goals very often take priority over company goals. Well above avoiding mishires, loyalty concerns are paramount in every organization I've worked for. You'd think that they'd treat hiring as the quintessential bet-the-company decision, and operate accordingly, but this simply doesn't happen. Leadership creates policies and procedures designed to introduce opacity in the process with the ostensible goal of avoiding mishires, but the real goal of preserving power.