Yeah, I’ve never understood this - earlier in my career this was the standard to have technically skilled hiring managers look for and contact people.

Now people act like they must have this ridiculous firehose of resumes to sort through, then have non-technical HR gals sort and filter out based on whatever random criteria they use, and then by the time it gets to the hiring managers - they still have no idea if this person is a complete idiot or has any skills at all. The qualified people you actually want to hire don’t want to be treated like idiots or liars either.

I just don’t feel it has to be this way - there is zero value in a firehose unless you were looking for desperate and cheap people.