3 Oct
2011
3 Oct
'11
9:33 p.m.
On 10/3/11 5:31 PM, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/03/2011 07:57 PM, Charlie Carothers wrote:
I agree 100%. That problem (as well as others) started when
"Personnel" became "HR", and these pure-overhead staffers got big
heads
and a really skewed view of how important they are to the operation of a
company.
-Dave
Especially true if it is a company that has pulled many former MS HR and
execs over. Kind of like a certain "museum" that was initially staffed with
museum personnel and then they replaced many of them with former MS managers
that had -0- idea on how to run a museum.
The
problem is that the Resume' (CV, whatever you want to call it) is not
going to get to the engineers. The HR department acts as a
preprocessor, and at least over here they will happilly filter out all
candidates who don't meet the strict list of criteria.
One of the nifty things about working for small outfits is they
typically don't have *that* sort of HR person, if any at all. There are
many other benefits as well, IMHO. Yes, there are some disadvantages as
well, but neither of my two experiences with a "biggy" was very pleasant.