from Gergely Orosz | by Gergely Orosz

If you work in tech, you probably have strong opinions on how hiring is broken. Write this down. The pain points you see and what you'd solve if you were the hiring manager. There's a good chance you'll be a hiring manager in a few years. Get this list out and make the changes.

When you are hiring manager, you'll start to see other constraints, invisible from the other side. The "spam" applications you possibly can't all respond to. The time organizing a single interview takes. It's why many revert to "usual" practices. Don't give up that easy.

I refrain from talking much about the "real world" of hiring on Twitter, because the majority of people have not been on the other side. It's easy to gather likes by tweeting "hire more juniors" when it's not you who will be responsible for the success - or failure - of them.

I write about real-world hiring insights for paid subscribers of t.co/SLe64y6YsX - many of whom are hiring managers themselves. It might be a hard pill to swallow, but retaining existing folks, not overloading them with too many in-person interviews comes before hiring.