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  • foolfool@brontosin.space
    Oct 28, 2026, 6:46 PM

    @Natasha_Jay I think that most tech companies (or companies of any kind) are simply bad at hiring.

    Specifically, the usual strategy is to gather as many applicants as possible and then reject them for arbitrary, often spurious reasons until the workload shrinks to a tractable size.

    They can get away with it for two reasons: Permanent cyclical unemployment means that there will be a superabundance of qualified applicants; and the companies take steps to protect themselves from their employees.

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  • foolfool@brontosin.space
    Oct 28, 2026, 6:54 PM

    @Natasha_Jay The company can easily tell how much it costs to hire someone, but they have no good way of measuring the benefits of a better hire over a worse one (either because their internal performance metrics are badly-designed or because the work is structured to minimize the performance differences between employees), so they cut costs in the hiring process - for instance, by giving the work to lower-paid positions that don't understand the qualifications - until errors like this manifest.

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  • foolfool@brontosin.space
    Oct 28, 2026, 6:59 PM

    @Natasha_Jay Analyzing their own hiring process, in particular, is an expense that they are all too willing to cut in favor of cargo-cult imitation of what other, apparently successful companies are doing.

    So the consequences of that process echo far beyond the organizations that are aware that they chose it.

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