alt Hacker NewsYes, and it is kind of necessary when hiring people from outside trusted networks. HR makes sure if people are who they say they are, background checks, and so on. Years of experience and so on are crude filters and should be bypassable by the team/hiring manager if the candidate meets the requirements. I know in large companies this can become political.
The big issue with the implementations I have seen is because HR aims to minimise the number of checks they do, so they can appear efficient.
So most aim to do as much resume filtering as they can first, then short calls, then background checks.
And the filtering and the call are areas where domain knowledge is relevant.