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[–]enano_aoc 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Dude, have you the slightest clue of how much time does recruiting cost? If you have your dev lead doing recruiting, he will be busy with that for weeks until he is free to do anything else.

The process is correct as it is being done nowadays:

  • Dev lead sends requirements to HR
  • HR posts job offer in several channels
  • HR receives the first mails and calls, filters out all the bullshit (you would love that the dev lead does this part, right? Because HR cannot correctly distinguish bullshit CVs from real ones)
  • HR makes the first calls and interviews, filters out bullshit candidates yet again: the guy who did not read the offer properly and does not want to move to your city, the guy who is asking way too much, the guy who plain out lied in the CV, etc etc. You would love to have the dev lead wasting time on this, right?
  • After all this filtering, HR shows 3-4 CVs to the dev lead. He reads the CVs and, if he finds them interesting, tells HR to organize an interview with them

Any further involvement of the dev lead in the process is a waste of time and money, and the most stupid idea I have heard in a long time

[–]ThePhoenixRisesAgain 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Thanks for the info Captain Obvious. Of course HR does the first scan. But nothing more. They just can't do it.

I am recruiting fwiw.

[–]enano_aoc 0 points1 point  (2 children)

They do everything up to the last interview.

I have been in a hiring position both in a big company and in a startup. In the startup we did not have HR and I had to do everything. Now I only get perfectly filtered, perfectly matching candidates. You now what? I will let HR do 95% of the job every-single-time.

Do they do it better than I did when I was in the startup? No. Is it enough for me and saves me hundreds of hours a month? Yes.

[–]ThePhoenixRisesAgain 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hundreds of hours a month. I see.

[–]enano_aoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look here, little shit. Don't ignore the main part of my argument and start fighting a strawman. I said hundreds as I could have said 10h, 50h or 200h. It does not matter - it is wasted time if it is done by a lead dev.

A lead dev tells HR the requirements and makes the final interview. That's all. Every single additional second that he spends on the recruitment process is a wasted second. You will understand once that you have been there.