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HR Should Be Banned From Interviewing Talent — How Companies Are Quietly Killing Their Best People

HR was never designed to recognize excellence.

In this episode of The Grind Hotline, the host breaks down why HR-led interviewing is one of the most damaging — and least questioned — systems inside modern companies.

Across sales, engineering, marketing, IT, finance, and operations, HR professionals routinely act as the first gatekeepers for roles they have never performed. They’ve never carried quota, shipped a product, owned a P&L, led execution under pressure, or lived with real business consequences — yet they decide who gets filtered out before real decision-makers ever get involved.

The result is predictable:

High performers are blocked early.
Average candidates advance.
Innovation slows.
Toxic leadership gets protected.

This episode exposes how HR-driven hiring contributes directly to bad managers, insecure leadership, quiet firing, restructuring disguised as “optimization,” and the slow erosion of high-performing teams — especially as companies move deeper into Layoff 2026.

If your workplace feels weaker, slower, and more political than it should be, this episode explains why.

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• Why HR interviews fail to identify real competence

• How HR functions as a risk filter, not a talent filter

• Why top performers are eliminated early in hiring

• How HR unintentionally protects weak leadership

• Why companies confuse “process” with intelligence

• What founders and executives should change immediately

• How hiring failures connect directly to layoffs and restructures

The Grind Hotline is a global workplace survival and corporate strategy podcast focused on the realities professionals face but can’t openly discuss.

The show covers:

• Toxic and insecure leadership

• Layoffs, restructures, and corporate instability

• Workplace politics and power dynamics

• Quiet Power communication and emotional discipline

• B2B sales, outbound strategy, and professional leverage

This is not motivation.
This is not corporate therapy.

It’s calm, strategic thinking for people operating inside broken systems.

The Grind Hotline is listened to in 150+ countries worldwide.

The host of The Grind Hotline is a global sales leader, entrepreneur, author, content creator, and workplace strategist with over 20 years of experience inside Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 environments.

Known for navigating toxic leadership, layoffs, and high-pressure corporate environments, the host is the creator of Quiet Power — a communication and workplace survival framework focused on clarity, restraint, and strategic positioning.

With over 500,000 cold calls and 50,000+ hours operating under pressure, the host has coached professionals worldwide on surviving layoffs, handling incompetent managers, protecting their careers, and building leverage without oversharing or self-sabotage.