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- "but it’s hard to actually step into the hiring manager position and find the best candidate without disappointing some people along the way" Hear me out: th
by borroka 6y ago
- "but it’s hard to actually step into the hiring manager position and find the best candidate without disappointing some people along the way"
Hear me out: the quality of (hiring) managers in tech is ridiculously bad for the money they make. Little quality, poor ideas, and little personality. Mostly, they are of the nerdy type, like the vast majority of people working in tech, so by inclination and culture are not leaders, but followers or the aloof type, and they much prefer to work on their own than in teams. It pays off to go with the flow in corporate.
Source: I had managers (including Directors and VPs) at some of the tech companies everybody talks about that were they to take any decision in which life and livelihood of people are at stake, it would be one of those dreams after which you wake up drenched in sweat and you make the sign of the cross you are just working in a tech company.
- walshemj 6y agoI am trying to understand what your saying - that managers would not make decisions.
- borroka 6y agoLet me clarify. Most managers I have seen in tech are sub-par. So, it might be that it is not that the hiring problem is a process problem, or a market problem, but a manager-quality problem. Of course, I can present only anecdotes from my own experience; but I can confidently say that, before getting into tech, I was expecting the quality of managers and decision-makers to be much higher, especially considering the money they make. Instead, I have noticed the usual skewed distribution: a bunch of brilliant decision-makers that move the company in the hopefully right direction, and a ton of minor managerial figures who are surprisingly terrible at being managers, when not total frauds. I hope it is clearer now.