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If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

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Re: If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

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Interviewer: It means we do Agile. Everything is in a flat structure, except when it comes to salary and responsibilities. We have a Recruitment Master, that coordinates all the other recruiters in Sprints. Absolute gold.

To give credit where it is due, this especially funny quote is nearly verbatim copied from the original article (https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-inte...) from which "inspiration" for this one was taken:

    It means we do Agile. Everything is in a flat structure,
    except when it comes to salary and responsibilities. 
    We have a Translator Master, that coordinates all 
    the other Translators in Sprints."

Re: If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

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Interviewer: It means we do Agile. Everything is in a flat structure, except when it comes to salary and responsibilities. We have a Recruitment Master, that coordinates all the other recruiters in Sprints. Absolute gold.

To give credit where it is due, this especially funny quote is nearly verbatim copied from the original article ( https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-inte... ) from which "inspiration" for this one was taken: It means we do Agile. Everything is in a flat structure, except when it comes to salary and responsibilities. We have a Translator Master, that coordinates all the other Translators in Sprint…

"inspiration". And I don't think they even fully understood the original, because this joke makes no sense in the new version, but did in the original:

> What filter will you use, if you want more than two conditions or if you want to analyze the list using database function? Candidate: I’m sorry. What? Is that a question?

Re: If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

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post #3

Why are we suddenly inundated with "If companies interviewed * the way they interview programmers" posts?

because the community is super frustrated with the state of interviewing.

> because a bunch of people who take free online javascript classes are frustrated they're being asked about algorithms and data structures they deem irrelevant

fixed

Re: If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

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post #3

Why are we suddenly inundated with "If companies interviewed * the way they interview programmers" posts?

because the community is super frustrated with the state of interviewing.

It's quite interesting how different submissions on the front page build on each other and there is a sort of meta-conversation happening with the flow of articles.

I think AI or whatever you want to call it is not up to it yet, but it would be an interesting investigation for in a few years.

Re: If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

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Recruiters usually aren't good at programming. If they were - in most cases - they wouldn't be recruiting, but writing code... So their "identification of good programmers" is somehow limited...

There are places where good technical recruiters earn substantially more than programmers - if they get 10% year salary (which I understand is not the highest number you might see), they only need ~1 successful placement a month to make reach parity.
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