A few reasons: 1. At least for me, I didn't know the game going in so I wasn't prepared for it. A lot of folks I interview don't either (though its becoming le

A few reasons: 1. At least for me, I didn't know the game going in so I wasn't prepared for it. A lot of folks I interview don't either (though its becoming less common... almost everyone is somewhat prepared for it now), and I feel bad for them. 2. I feel like I'm a competent developer, but I'm not very good at the game, even when I practice and study a lot for it. I can barely eek through the process. And at least for me, I don't have a wide, general set of skills... I'm kind of only good at writing code, so when these artificial barriers are erected, I see future job prospects disappearing, and I don't really know what to do about it. 3. Perhaps it goes hand in hand with engineering, but I criticize absurdities an inefficiencies in business all the time. There's something particularly hypocritical about an industry which prides itself on meritocracy developing a process which not only fails to recognize qualified developers but often actively works against them. 4. I think we actually need more engineers. A lot more. Gatekeeping is preventing this from happening, leading to a general population wholly unequipped to understand and maintain the software that's taking over their lives. Programming should be a lot more like reading and a lot less like specialized medicine.