[loloquwowndueo]

The amount of time and resources wasted into converting Canonical into an HR machine capable of processing 10000 applicants per month is astronomical.

People are spending 30-50% of their time in hiring tasks, reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, while the success rate is close to what you see in spam operations: 1 out of 10000 applicants get an offer. High-paid vicepresidents spend more than half their time pushing resumes and clicking around the recruitment page instead of having meetings with their teams.

This is all as desired by Shuttleworth: he is convinced he has just reinvented or disrupted HR and is entirely devoted to this. It’s not a waste of time for him - it’s what he lives for.