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Ironically, for companies that were gonna use these automated reviews anyway, LLMs might actually help with cases like these. As much as I hate thinking about automated review even happening at all.

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Sometimes I wonder if the recruitment process has become a way for HR and HM to appear busy rather than actually hire people? I hear the same stories, over and over again, experienced myself. For example, the team is too busy, everyone's in the offsite, X gone on holiday, its our fault the team needs to realign, the role is suddenly frozen, etc. Candidates could be enjoying their time instead of wasting their lives like that. I know it seems that this case is fine because the rejection was immediate, but if you write in the forms manually you can easily waste 1 hour per application. Should be ilegal!

Sometimes I wonder if the recruitment process has become a way for HR and HM to appear busy rather than actually hire people?

My rule of thumb is: if your company has <=50 employees, and there’s a VP/Director of HR, your life as a hiring manager will be miserable. “What happened to candidate X? The team gave them a ‘hire’.”

“Still checking references”, or some such bullshit as an excuse for dragging feet. “What do you do all day?”

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