Bureaucracy of this sort begins with the belief that systems are designed a priori by rules.
I am sure that most of the personnel policies that the author alludes to are well-meaning and intuitive. What is out of scope in such rule-making is the empirical outcome. The cost of delay (213 days to hire) is apparently not a factor in the rules.
They lose a lot of good people in a presumed attempt to ensure they hire good people. Such an outcome is only recognized a posteriori.
I am sure that most of the personnel policies that the author alludes to are well-meaning and intuitive. What is out of scope in such rule-making is the empirical outcome. The cost of delay (213 days to hire) is apparently not a factor in the rules.
They lose a lot of good people in a presumed attempt to ensure they hire good people. Such an outcome is only recognized a posteriori.