Re:Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy
by sharpn on Saturday August 22, 2009 @06:51PM
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It's not difficult to avoid the 'HR gateway' problem - just have HR concentrate on payroll, legal compliance issues, visas etc. & not interview or filter resumes. Interviewer should be the prospective recruit's direct manager, &/or someone who has/is or can do the job in question (wherever possible) and a seperate interview by someone else to confirm the first opinion. Is that rare? I've never hired any other way.
Re:Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy
by russell on Saturday August 22, 2009 @05:13PM
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"... is the HR department."
Among the many reasons that I avoid corporate IT. Some of the smell tests are nattering on and on about responsibilities like attending meetings, preparing reports. It's like telling a doctor to scrub before surgery.
Re:Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy
by jhancock on Saturday August 22, 2009 @05:41PM
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yep, a key reason I avoid BigCorp as well. But your comparison may be off: I have read recently (I think from HN) that forcing doctors and nurses to scrub before surgery reduces disease. I know, we all like to think the docs will do this with no oversight, but apparently not.
Re:Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy
by kallistec on Saturday August 22, 2009 @08:00PM
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This reminds me of that YC funded recruiting company (forgot the name--help!) that closed up shop and had their postmortem featured on HN recently. The conclusion was that HR departments aren't a profit center, so there's no motivation to innovate.
Maybe there should be a RFS for a better way to measure HR performance; that way, at least the pointy-haired bosses could be yelled at by their pointy-haired bosses when they score below industry average, or worse than last year.
I suggest you get some more hardware, perhaps you can compute the remaining two a little quicker.
Among the many reasons that I avoid corporate IT. Some of the smell tests are nattering on and on about responsibilities like attending meetings, preparing reports. It's like telling a doctor to scrub before surgery.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760477
Maybe there should be a RFS for a better way to measure HR performance; that way, at least the pointy-haired bosses could be yelled at by their pointy-haired bosses when they score below industry average, or worse than last year.