As a general comment, I wish hiring managers found some other outlets for their enormous ego and insecurities than the process of hiring of software engineers.
I understand their argument that they have 1,000,000,000 applicants for every job so it's absolutely totally super required to be like. But companies still paying 2019 wages and are CRUD shops really need to bring it down a notch. You're getting a billion applicants because people are desperate and there are tons of CS grads, not because you're the greatest company on earth
> You're getting a billion applicants because people are desperate and there are tons of CS grads, not because you're the greatest company on earth
How does this change the point? They would still like the best candidate out of that pool, not any warm body, since they have limited positions.
What is your approach to hiring and evaluating talent knowing the large number of applicants and how easy it is to _talk about software development_ vs. _actually developing software_, and how expensive and difficult it is to deal with a bad hire, even in America.
I understand their argument that they have 1,000,000,000 applicants for every job so it's absolutely totally super required to be like. But companies still paying 2019 wages and are CRUD shops really need to bring it down a notch. You're getting a billion applicants because people are desperate and there are tons of CS grads, not because you're the greatest company on earth