--- title: Why Bad Onboarding Forces You to Over-Hire (And How to... description: A career coach and former ThoughtWorks global head of recruiting discusses why recruitment is undervalued as a strategic function, how poor onboarding makes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-bad-onboarding-forces-you-to-over-hire-and-how-to-fix-your-pipeline--uo1yguqbm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Bad Onboarding Forces You to Over-Hire (And How to Fix Your Pipeline) | daily.dev og:description: A career coach and former ThoughtWorks global head of recruiting discusses why recruitment is undervalued as a strategic function, how poor onboarding makes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-bad-onboarding-forces-you-to-over-hire-and-how-to-fix-your-pipeline--uo1yguqbm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uo1YGuQbM.png og:image:alt: Why Bad Onboarding Forces You to Over-Hire (And How to Fix Your Pipeline) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Bad Onboarding Forces You to Over-Hire (And How to Fix Your Pipeline) **[Continuous Delivery](https://daily.dev/sources/continuousdelivery)** · 26 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A career coach and former ThoughtWorks global head of recruiting discusses why recruitment is undervalued as a strategic function, how poor onboarding makes companies over-cautious and over-demanding in hiring, and how AI is amplifying existing recruiting problems rather than fixing them. She argues job descriptions are often outdated relics, coding tests should mirror the actual job rather than copy big-tech interview formats, and companies frequently lose good candidates to a lossy pipeline. She advocates for treating the hiring process as a cultural demo, benchmarking interview difficulty to the actual role, and having developers become better interviewers as the highest-leverage way to improve recruiting outcomes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t stop hiring humans — stop hiring the wrong humans, Artisan’s founder says](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-stop-hiring-humans-stop-hiring-the-wrong-humans-artisan-s-founder-says-vh9ium3le) · TechCrunch · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Finding the true Talent in the AI era](https://daily.dev/posts/finding-the-true-talent-in-the-ai-era-wlpzi7szi) · Softbinator · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#company-culture](https://daily.dev/tags/company-culture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-bad-onboarding-forces-you-to-over-hire-and-how-to-fix-your-pipeline--uo1yguqbm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why Bad Onboarding Forces You to Over-Hire (And How to Fix Your Pipeline)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-bad-onboarding-forces-you-to-over-hire-and-how-to-fix-your-pipeline--uo1yguqbm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-bad-onboarding-forces-you-to-over-hire-and-how-to-fix-your-pipeline--uo1yguqbm"},"datePublished":"2026-09-30T18:19:54.180Z","dateModified":"2026-09-30T18:20:09.991Z","description":"A career coach and former ThoughtWorks global head of recruiting discusses why recruitment is undervalued as a strategic function, how poor onboarding makes...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T4qP5baf6r8/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T4qP5baf6r8/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Continuous Delivery","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Continuous Delivery","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s---b6TAqpH--/f_auto/v1730404995/logos/continuousdelivery","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/continuousdelivery"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-bad-onboarding-forces-you-to-over-hire-and-how-to-fix-your-pipeline--uo1yguqbm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"company-culture","timeRequired":"PT26M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Why Bad Onboarding Forces You to Over-Hire (And How to Fix Your Pipeline)","description":"A career coach and former ThoughtWorks global head of recruiting discusses why recruitment is undervalued as a strategic function, how poor onboarding makes...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T4qP5baf6r8/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-09-30T18:19:54.180Z","duration":"PT26M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/uo1YGuQbM","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/T4qP5baf6r8"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Continuous Delivery","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/continuousdelivery"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Why Bad Onboarding Forces You to Over-Hire (And How to Fix Your Pipeline)"}]} ```