[specialist]

Heh.

I once helped author the hiring guidelines and questions used for recruiting and interviewing. After months of effort, the committee proudly, euphorically called the effort good.

I then asked the committee "Who here could pass the high bar we just set?"

Total buzz kill.

The upside was I was never asked to help again.

[plasticchris]

There’s also the story of one hiring committee that was proud of its high bar. It got pranked by someone feeding them their own packets, which they denied. It was in a tech talk somewhere, don’t recall where.

[disgruntledphd2]

This is a valuable experiment to run for any hiring process.

Generally, you want to select for successful employees in your company, which hirers normally are. If they can't get selected, something is very very wrong with your process.