For one company, I got the list of the most critical roles (directors, security, etc.) and filled all but one role in ~3 months. Filling your most critical roles is obviously high leverage, but companies pay recruiters a tiny fraction of what engineers get paid and then get the expected results.
At one company, I asked why managers found recruiters to be so poor and good recruiters all got promoted into management. You'd never run eng that way, but apparently you'd run recruiting that way.
Dan Luu
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