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Originally Posted by Schumi
I think you should be a bit more introspective and take a look at your pre-hire screening processes with regards to these workers, instead of generally riffing on them.
Sounds like your screening sucks. There are good engineers everywhere, and if you are getting doped into hiring bad ones, that isn't their fault, it is yours.
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This is a valid point but I don't think it's the case. The guy that we had to let go was interviewed by my boss, who is a founder of two separate well known companies and is a pretty brilliant guy, another contract worker who is renowned in his field, and one other manager who is also really bright. Personally I think the agency had someone else do the phone interview. Unfortunately, sometimes a phone interview is all we can accommodate due to various constraints, which lends itself to fraudulent activity but you would hope these companies would be honest.
With regards to my most recent experience, we put out the requirements and those requirements went out to several contract companies. Each of the contract companies sends us applicant resumes and we weed out based on our specific needs/requirements to get a short list. Me and two others interviewed the shortlist and each interview left all three of us shaking our heads with the exception of the one we hired. He impressed us.