You forgot to mention that standardized test are used in a lot of these professions (eg, accounting and medicine). It often seems to me that the people who com

You forgot to mention that standardized test are used in a lot of these professions (eg, accounting and medicine). It often seems to me that the people who complain about software hiring actually like the completely vacuous "talk about yourself" type interview that you get for some corporate jobs. Either that or they just like bitching and it never occurs to them to consider why things are the way they are. Not that there isn't a ton of room for improvement - it's known that the whiteboard coding interview process gives terrible signal - but that's because it's an extremely difficult problem, not because the current methodology is particularly stupid.