India, July 31 -- In a viral Reddit post, a manager tried to test the effectiveness of his own company's hiring system and what he found out shocked him too. The frustrated manager wrote a post titled "I can't hire either", where he discovered just how broken the system is.

The manager-level employee revealed that they opened a role on their team earlier this year and coordinated with the Talent Acquisition Team ("TA") to make sure the job description was accurate and the essential skills were clearly listed.

"Within a week, I got eight referrals from my broader network and coworkers. I reached out to those folks and had a couple of conversations about the job, and there were 2 or 3 people who were a decent fit and interested," he added...