Something very strange is happening, maybe someone has insights and can explain Cisco jobs posting.
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In most cases a manager already knows who they are going to hire. Posting the req and holding interviews just serves to avoid lawsuits.
They have been doing this for years. 2 years ago there was a Principal Engineer position in another BU. I had been a G12 for 4 years and contacted the recruiter and HM. Sent my resume, accomplishment, referral names. Both came back and said I don't qualify. The position was exactly what I was working on as a G12.
It's all just a facade
Hiring managers post the internal requisition and if any internal apply then recruiter try to push him off saying your profile does not match or HM is going with more suitable candidate and HM go ahead with preset candidate with hiring. This has become a hiring mafia practice
HM floats the Req while onboarding happens with a conversion from red to blue
And HM still keeps talking to applicants and d-mb recruiters keep connecting to applicants and try to set up some dummy interviews. This practice is known to HR and upper management. Internal hiring and move is a BS
There were quite a few openings in the UK till recent times. Now here are only 8 open positions and they seem quite static. We all know what comes after that happens. there is no ay they hired over 30 people in under a month.
Not all reqs have funding. You'd think an org would need funding to post a req... not the case
We cut open reqs before we start firing real people. Probably letting reqs linger because they are going to be used up during the upcoming LR
Market is tough, for every job posting HMs now get 50+ resumes in a week to review
I have seen it many times that hiring manager already identified a candidate prior to the req posting, the posting is just part of the process