Ask HN: How do you make software engineering recruiting better?

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In my personal opinion, the big change we need to make in the industry is to make hiring of software engineers a responsibility of the engineering department, rather than the responsibility of HR.

To recycle part of one of my previous comments:

Engineering: We need to hire some more people.

HR: Why are you telling us? That's not our problem.

Engineering: ?!

some time later

Engineering: OK, we've found a guy we want to hire.

HR: Excellent. We can take it from here.

Note: I am not exaggerating for effect here. I am totally serious. The hiring of engineers should not be an HR problem.

I think the one caveat to that point is then every department will argue they should handle their whole hiring process. It could then become that HR becomes decentralized and each department has it's own HR person. I don't know if this is good or bad.

Can you elaborate on this point? What are the problems that you see as needing to be addressed?

How do you find people especially passive candidates and how do we waste less time in the process? Matching company and candidate expectations.

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