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I have a theory. 1. Interviews are hard. Hiring is hard. 2. The best hires I've personally been involved in have been personal references, not blind hires. 3
by ubermonkey 3y ago
I have a theory.
1. Interviews are hard. Hiring is hard.
2. The best hires I've personally been involved in have been personal references, not blind hires.
3. The need of FAANG-class firms to scale, and to churn (rank-and-yank), means they have to hire a LOT -- far more than personal references can supply.
4. But they still don't want to hire duds (except, of course, in the case of the egregious unethical and cruel "hire to fire" brought on b/c of rank-and-yank).
5. So they create a Process -- an Algorithm, if you will! -- and then keep adding steps and attributes and whatnot over time.
6. Eventually this Process resembles any other long-running, poorly-expanded codebase.
And here we are.