Who the HR department reports to tells you a lot about the company’s priorities. In most cases, HR reports to the CEO. HR could also report to the CTO, CFO, eve

Who the HR department reports to tells you a lot about the company’s priorities. In most cases, HR reports to the CEO. HR could also report to the CTO, CFO, even the board of directors directly. In this case it seems that HR has shifted from reporting to the CIO to reporting to the CTO. Such a move on its surface could indicate close knit arrangements regarding hiring, technology used by the devs, and even the possibility of HR using more tech to perform their own duties. For instance, there might be more tech savvy people actually doing the screening itself due to close proximity to the tech department. Less siloes could mean better devs get through the early stages of the interview process that could normally be erroneously or prematurely filtered out.