[rikthevik]

> His interviewers were hiring him for expertise in his field that they themselves did not have. Pretty much it was bureaucrats and administrators hiring somebody for a particular skill requirement.

This is what keeps me coming back to small companies and startups. Any company with an HR department big enough that they hire using a series of bullet points pretty much guarantees I will have brain-dead coworkers.

[elblanco]

Funny you say that, I actually left that place largely for this reason directly for a very small startup.