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> My theory is that hiring is just really hard Not that hard. Talk to people like human beings and examine their previous work and employment history.

• MauranKilom 6y ago
  You conveniently cut off the important part: > hiring is just really hard and it’s difficult to do that at scale Yes, talking to people about their previous work and employment history is a good way to judge their fit for a position. It also takes about half a working day of 2-3 people each time to do it properly.
  • blacksqr 6y ago
    Like Soylent Green, a software company is people. If you have hiring authority and you don't think it's worth your time to spend half a day a couple of times a week to get the right people into your organization, you have the wrong job.
    • MauranKilom 6y ago
      I can confirm that putting in this time is imperative to getting the right people hired. But if you require that any engineer involved should spend a quarter to half of their week on hiring, and that you yourself consider anyone with less commitment unsuitable, don't you agree that scalability becomes a problem? How many half-recruiters, half-engineers do you think are available, compared to the overall need for engineers with hiring authority? I don't have data on the former, but it's apparent to me that, if you hire people to do this full-time instead, you're hiring a recruiter. That's what gets you exactly the system everybody seems to complain about.