> Oh, and we were too small to have an HR department. When we grew big enough, they definitely got in the way. I had to more or less fight them off over every p

> Oh, and we were too small to have an HR department. When we grew big enough, they definitely got in the way. I had to more or less fight them off over every position we hired for, because they didn't understand anything about coding, When I ran my tech recruiting business, I made screening tech resumes a key part of the interview process. I could onky get it to work if I wrote the job ad myself (as a recruiter who talked directly to the hiring manager), told the interviewees specifically what I was looking for, and specifically coached them to find reasons to like people.