I cannot speak for other industries but in mine, video games, this practice seems to be formed by the 3d party recruiters in order to collect fees. Applying to

I cannot speak for other industries but in mine, video games, this practice seems to be formed by the 3d party recruiters in order to collect fees. Applying to any company's ad for an engineering position rarely produces any response while in the same time every engineer is hounded by recruiters even while not looking for a job. You can apply, wait for weeks with no response then call an agency recruiter of your choice and have a phone interview scheduled in 2 days tops. Looking at recruiters in my Linkedin network I can see how most of them move between 3d party agencies and contract/staff HR positions at the studios so I imagine there are many connections between internal and external HR. With the recruiting fees being 10s of thousand dollars and HR people paid peanuts it is statistically unlikely that most of them stay honest.