In other news, HR still has no idea what it's doing, but is convinced that arbitrary heuristics which eliminate candidates implicitly lead to optimal hiring, bu

In other news, HR still has no idea what it's doing, but is convinced that arbitrary heuristics which eliminate candidates implicitly lead to optimal hiring, business managers still don't understand tech work, and Wikipedia is widely believed to trend toward accuracy. (in other words, hiring people is hard work, really hard work, but we pretend that employing arbitrary requirements [e.g. must be employed, must have exact experience in variant x of library y on platform z] equals the necessary hard work)