The HR recruiter involvement in the hiring process is madness to me. I get that managing somebody through the pipeline is work, and probably a dev isn’t the right person for that job. But having HR out there rejecting resumes is insanity.
> Alas, nobody else does this.
I'm confused by this statement. Every company I have worked at for the last 15 years has had hiring managers and usually some senior engineers on the team screen resumes. How else do you even decide who to move to the phone or in-person interview stage?
I've probably triaged 1000 resumes over the years, across three different companies.
A benefit of this process is that your resume-writing skills improve a lot. Read a hundred or so resumes and you'll learn what catches your eye and what gets ignored.
Alas, nobody else does this. I used to mention this process at places I worked but people thought I was nuts. It worked, though. We rarely had a hire that didn't work out.