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Some of these don't sound that bad at all, considered how much lazy/terrible "programmers" there are.

• cratermoon 9y ago
  The software industry's aversion to regulation and licensing is definitely a proximate cause for the current state of interviewing. In order to "weed out" the ones who read the Learn <thing> in 21 Days or are just flat out incompetent despite calling themselves Senior Developers, companies have developed the elaborate and costly (8 developers spending 2 hours out of their day interviewing amounts to a couple of million dollars in time at a minimum) process over and over at each separate hiring point, rather than get together and agree on some sort of industry-wide standard that candidates must meet. Of course, the argument is that they get to impose their own standards of competence and merit, but looking at the makeup of the MAGA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon) workforce, this process has devolved according to the Iron Law of Oligarchy. Oh yeah, but there are also a couple of startups out there that promise to solve the hiring problem with their special neural network/big data/cloud-based secret sauce for screening candidates. Shockingly, their algorithm identifies the very sort of people already able to hurdle the current process as being the right candidate under their methodology.
  • ariwilson 9y ago
    16 developer hours is 2 million dollars? Each developer hour costs $125k? I think something is off in your math...
    • dhimes 9y ago
      I think he means to a company that hires continually- that is, $2M per year.
      • cratermoon 9y ago
        Yeah, if you're just talking about a one-time thing, then it's 16 hours times however many candidates make it to that phase times the hourly pay of the developers. That's still chunk of money.