It’s insane that we’ve allowed an entire layer of people that don’t understand or work at all and generally work entirely off of “vibes” (I’m talking about HR departments) to interest themselves into the hiring process. Just massively inefficient and wasteful.
I'm serious. Company of 50 that I run, with a bunch of other subsidiaries that employee around 350 people altogether. We have a central admin team (who handle general administrative duties) with a very strong set of internal tooling also augmented by some rudimentary crud UIs and AI. It's magical because we never had to use recruiters to hire and everything runs automated/semiautomated. I'm honestly considering spinning this process out as a way for companies to outsource and minify their HR processes, and surprisingly I've received some very strong interest from some equally sized companies (100-300 employee teams).
HR is a wasteful expenditure pushed by the likes of thinkers who've never worked an actual day in their lives. If there's one culture any company must follow, it's simply one of Prussian-style discipline (which can by definition take many forms).
