HR managers are rarely ever intelligent. The work they do doesn’t require it and intelligent people don’t want to do a job where they’ll be surrounded by lower intelligence people.
Maybe some HR managers believe that empathy and "EQ" are more important than IQ?
Maybe they even think that intelligence is a social construct invented by the Patriarchy for the purpose of oppressing people who are not "cis white males"?
Who knows, maybe for some, these ideas may even have been part of their education....
> Maybe some HR managers believe that empathy and "EQ" are more important than IQ?
Have you ever interacted with HR? I'm pretty sure they are trained to be cold and uncaring, and to apply business rules without exception. Never heard an ounce of empathy from any of them, it always feels like interacting with an automaton that was somehow annoyed with you.
Plenty of times. Some that are really smart, some that are not. Some that are cold and "corporate", some that are getting way too personal. (As in a "metoo" moment.)
Politically, I've met at least one that was secretly a eugenicist and others that are pretty far left.
All of them individuals, but several of them collectivists.
> Maybe some HR managers believe that empathy and "EQ" are more important than IQ?
> Maybe they even think that intelligence is a social construct invented by the Patriarchy for the purpose of oppressing people who are not "cis white males"?
Are you agreeing or disagreeing with the person you replied to?
Neither, I simply don't see how it is relevant (or even very "intelligent") to stick a categorical "stupid"-label on HR.
HR is a bit like IT support. Some companies will have a lower standard when hiring for such roles, others will have as high or possibly higher standards when hiring SRE's than when hiring developers.
And even if it should be correct that SWE's score a few points higher, on average, than HR managers, I see no utility in making a fuss about that. To the extent that it has a market value, salaries will reflect that.
Now, should HR staff start to act unprofessionally themselves, things change. For instance, if individuals within HR start to advocate for lower wages to or other actions against individuals or groups they feel resentment against, then that is a problem.
