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The decline of recruiting: Hiring managers, bad tech
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The decline of recruiting: Hiring managers, bad tech

Clueless managers and the rise of the tech stack have doomed us.

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Ted Bauer
Dec 31, 2017
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Thing I've never understood: until automation gets to scale (not there yet), people are a company's biggest expense (in the form of salaries, but also hiring/recruiting). We penny-pinch everything in companies, right? And we claim to apply data to everything? Why is recruiting so rooted in subjective bullshit, then? Why are interview questions so generi…

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