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I think this is a product of the relative immaturity of our industry, and the problems exist inside SV companies as well as outside. We tend to cargo cult inte
by learc83 8y ago
I think this is a product of the relative immaturity of our industry, and the problems exist inside SV companies as well as outside.
We tend to cargo cult interview practices from whomever the big player of the week is (IBM, then MS, now Google).
Then we justify these awful hiring practices by convincing ourselves that programming is so hard that of course we need to put candidates through 6 rounds of interviews and treat people with 20 years of experience like new grads.
- lovich 8y agoAgreed on the immaturity of our industry being a cause for problems. The industrial revolution took nearly 100 years to permeate through society and create standard practices for many industries. Computer technology and science has only been around for a little over half of that, and the fact that the majority of it is abstractions that our brains didnt evolve for as opposed to plain physics which we do have instincts for, appears to be making it harder for us to come to a consensus as to the right way to solve these problems