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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
I still maintain that it can’t be that stressful. Wave after wave of people applying. All they have to do is pick a bunch of resumes out of the pile, stick them in a few rounds of interviews, and see which ones come out the other end to refer to the hiring team manager. Now you do need a certain Type A personality to reach out and talk to people so I can see that aspect being emotionally draining.
gpt
It's not that it is a particularly hard job, it's just a necessary one if you don't want your engineers to have to waste time doing it. Posting job ads, sorting through resumes, interview rounds etc all take time and especially so if you have a lot of turnaround. For a large company it just makes sense to have someone whose sole job is to take care of that stuff for your staff. You can pay a recruiter a fraction of what you'd pay an engineer.