hiremecowards

Oh please. All engineers are arrogant, usually, proportionally to their skills.

That does not mean that they do not understand team work or other engineers being different from them and it does not mean they can't sit down and coach other engineers. They do, but when the other engineers are too lazy to improve themselves, the manager values quantity over quality anyway, what can they do?

In many situations, a mix of arrogance and self-confidence it's the only defense a skilled engineer has against the mass of unqualified idiots steering a project the wrong way.

Passing up brilliant people at this level does not solve the problem: they are brilliant enough to become competition.

It's precisely about the cowardice of accepting that there are insanely bright and skilled professionals, right in your team or in your company and one way or another you have to deal with them, or they will deal with you.

No, you can google that. Studies show that 50% of hires are underqualified

> I feel that the reason that recruiting sucks is because there's a misalignment between the recruiter and the employer.

It seems you missed the message, maybe I should put more focus on explaining it.

I think recruitment sucks for other reasons. Recruiters and employers are very much aligned on getting as many people as they can, and that's the problem.

Quantity does not make for quality, and sure companies need quantity, but most would do better focusing on quality.

Yeah, a little bit .

Reading the comments, it seems the filler testimonials are the issue. I am really curious to find out how they'd react with real ones.

No, not from us at least. We have high-level technical questions, to let companies know how a candidate would solve problems.

Thanks!