The Joy Of Over-Engineered Job Descriptions
When HR and Hiring Managers get together it’s a recipe for a whole pot of nonsense, uncertainty, and abject failure.
We know about hiring managers — those denizens of the management hierarchy that are, on the one hand, somehow directly involved with the hiring process but, on the other, shouldn’t be anywhere near it as they’re as non-technical as a year old wobbling grape jelly¹.
We also know about HR departments — the secret police of the grand game that work against software engineers (and solely for the company) on a regular basis. Their mind control stress-weapons include endless box ticking busywork, company mandatory fun, and repetitive mind-numbing and startlingly irrelevant performance reviews.
Can you imagine what it’s like when they get together and try to hire someone technical? That’s what we’re going to talk about today.
Specifications
Over enthusiastic Peter principle’d non-technical hiring managers and box ticking performance goal hunting HR departments tend to throw business buzzwords and technical keywords right at the big recruiting wall like steaming piles of spaghetti, hoping that literally anything will stick.
Unfortunately in this case, all you end up with is a great big mess that the developers have to deal with…
