[loftyai]

Does anyone else find it out that the people (recruiters) in charge of finding good tech talent often have no experience in programming themselves? So, my question is how do they know if someone is a good programmer?

If all they do is read the resume, then we know, based on other people's comments here, that it's clearly not good enough of a method to find the best talent. So, if this is the case, why do we keep relying on recruiters to find us talent?

[seanmcdirmid]

Recruiters generally don’t evaluate programming ability. They pattern match on keywords in the resume and act as a very crude crap filter.

[loftyai]

But it's 2019 about to be 2020. Surely people can easily automate this aspect of recruiting?