You often hear or read things like "The job market is broken.", "Job search is broken.", "The interview process needs to be fixed.". While those statements pro

You often hear or read things like "The job market is broken.", "Job search is broken.", "The interview process needs to be fixed.". While those statements probably are true I'd say that for knowledge / engineering (particularly software engineering) work there's something larger at play here and even the concept of 'job' itself is broken. Although it requires a different mindset and approach that kind of work essentially is still treated like industrial age assembly line work: - People are evaluated in terms of fitness for a position according to their resume and qualifications on paper. - They're expected to work a certain amount of hours per day. - They're mostly still expected to work at a specific location. - Their output is measured in terms of time spent rather than value created. - Especially with larger companies there often is a lot of cargo cult or management for management's sake involved because that's the way it's been done before and - agile or not - we haven't really figured out how to organise knowledge work in terms of knowledge work at scale rather than falling back to how we used to organise factory or clerical work.