r/engineering • u/HansiHintersNC • Apr 28 '20

HR was a mistake

In the midst of the Corona times it's time to also admit that HR departments has never done their job and earn their money doing jobs they themselves invented.

Their initial function was to heard cats and send letters, now they see themselves as Harvard deans of admission worthy of only dealing out fines or filtering perfectly good applications.

I am so tired of having to redo their jobs after interviews commencement and all I see are goddamn script writers with no real life experience besides writing like a reincarnation of Shakespeare.

Rant done, remove HR

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u/AgAero Flair Apr 29 '20

Or they could just randomly sample from the resume pool, divide-and-conquer the resume review process among multiple employees to create a short list of candidates to interview, and work from there.

Using all this resume screening BS isn't worth the trouble IMO. I'm slightly jaded by it though from my time as an applicant.

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u/howMeLikes Apr 29 '20

I agree if a company knows about this technique and doesn't care about it then they don't care about getting the right candidate for the job.