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This is a side effect of the broken hiring process. Typically candidates are found by acronym matching. The folks who are below average (don't know what a clo
by rogerbinns 14y ago
This is a side effect of the broken hiring process. Typically candidates are found by acronym matching. The folks who are below average (don't know what a closing brace is) will keep tweaking their CV/resume until they get called since it is pretty easy to guess what acronyms are being looked for.
When they don't succeed in getting hired they will keep repeating the process which means they will go through many interviews. A person on the other end of the bell curve is likely to interview a handful of times in their entire career so you are unlikely to ever see them.
- harryh 14y agoIt's definitely true that poor candidates are on the market much longer than excellent candidates so they are over represented in interviews. I don't think it follows that the hiring process is broken though. I think it's just evidence that hiring is hard. The very best candidates are essentially never on the "open market."
- rogerbinns 14y agoI meant that it is broken at a specific organization if you end up doing an in person interview, they walk up to the whiteboard and do not know what a closing brace is. They should never have made that far through the organisation's interview process, unless that specific process was broken.