No offense, but hiring programmers for HR seems like a terrible idea. HR people's main capacity is to understand people and relationships, not exactly something programmers are known for being good at.
* Processes, procedures and forms
* 401K, health insurance and other benefit programs
* Buying salary surveys
* Finding template bonus programs, performance evaluation programs and hire-a-friend programs. Adjusting them a bit to fit current organization.
* Employment and immigration laws
I've never found them to particularly understand people and relationships. I've worked for 4 years for a corporation where I never once managed to talk to an HR person. Everything was done through support tickets. But even in smaller companies, I found that HR folks are more of systems-people than people-people.
the point remains the same though. I don't think hackers would be very good at processes, procedures and forms.
Hackers create, this is administration.
If those in Denmark are people people, good for them!
Perhaps this is a hacker-culture reaction to that kind of thinking?
Sounds a bit like writing FooInterface and FooInterfaceImpls all day, to me.
Not to be offensive, but I think a little bit of respect for other lines of work would be a good thing here.