<story><title>All You Zombies</title><url>http://thedailywtf.com/articles/all-you-zombies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exelius</author><text>HR at most companies is filled with people who are too terrible at anything else, so they get shoved into HR. This situation above (at a telecom turned business service provider) is a very common problem -- especially at companies with a large consumer-facing presence.&lt;p&gt;Because these companies need to hire large volumes of low-skilled workers, they implement rigid HR policies and procedures to streamline the process. Those workers make up probably 95% of their hiring volume -- turnover is high and there are tons of positions available.&lt;p&gt;These companies fall flat on their fucking face when they try to hire skilled workers. The same processes that make them efficient and streamlined at hiring call center reps make them &lt;i&gt;fucking terrible&lt;/i&gt; at skilled labor hiring. They use low-skilled HR reps with zero domain knowledge to filter stuff, then HR always has to be involved in the process &amp;quot;because policy&amp;quot;. End result is it takes 4 months to get a resume, interview and extend an offer to someone -- in which time, the best candidates already have started other jobs.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the engineering groups need to get things done. So when Accenture comes in and says &amp;quot;We can get you a whole team of 50 people in India. And they can start next week.&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s hard to say no. And most of the full-time people working at the company are ex-consultants themselves (because that&amp;#x27;s the only way to actually work at a lot of these companies).&lt;p&gt;Consultants are basically &amp;quot;shadow HR&amp;quot; at a lot of companies. They wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so prevalent if these companies were competent at hiring people with relevant skill.</text></comment>
<story><title>All You Zombies</title><url>http://thedailywtf.com/articles/all-you-zombies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LeonM</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve all been there, recruiters calling you because you are the perfect applicant because of your skill with framework XYZ (even though you&amp;#x27;ve never worked with it, nor claimed you have experience with it). And also because of your experience in Java (even though you are a javascript dev). They have the perfect job &amp;#x27;opportunity&amp;#x27; for you!
As long as you have at least 15 years experience in React and Angular and SCRUM and agile you should be fine. Oh, and you have to lower your hourly rate so the recruiter can make $20+ per hour of of your work.&lt;p&gt;Seriously, when does it stop?</text></comment>