[PhasmaFelis]

I'm always torn between appreciating guys like this for their good advice, and wanting to scream because the entire rest of the industry still hasn't twigged to this gobsmackingly "water-is-wet" obvious fact. How can so many smart people be so deeply, enduringly stupid?

[mrkurt]

This used to wig me out a bit. We have people we turn down thank us for having a decent hiring process ... and I think what we have is a good philosophy with an imperfect implementation.

But it's actually really hard to do what we're doing. It's not hard in the "can I get a rocket to land itself?" sense, it's more of a grind and commitment problem. It's hard to spend the time developing a new position in a way that works with our process (2-3 weeks of work, minimum), it's tiring to keep up with people who apply, it's painful to fight for rigorous hiring criteria. I can see why places just go with the default.