Welcome to /recruiting

This community exists for people who actually work on hiring systems, teams, and decisions, not just talk about them.

Recruiting is strange work. It mixes psychology, economics, software, incentives, and human judgment, often under time pressure and incomplete information. Most public discourse flattens that complexity into slogans. This space is for resisting that flattening.

What belongs here:

Thoughtful takes on how hiring really works

Experiments, failures, and lessons from the field

Clear arguments backed by evidence or lived experience

Good questions that don’t have obvious answers

What doesn’t:

Vendor spam

Motivational fluff

LinkedIn-style performance

Advice that ignores incentives, scale, or tradeoffs

If you’re posting, aim to think out loud in public. Share what you’re unsure about. Change your mind visibly. Disagree like an adult.

To start things off, here’s a prompt:

What’s one hiring belief you held strongly five years ago that you no longer believe, and why?

Signal over noise. Let’s build this slowly and correctly.