I think the vast majority of the issues come from the fundamental disconnect between what people want to believe they are hiring for ahd what they are actually

I think the vast majority of the issues come from the fundamental disconnect between what people want to believe they are hiring for ahd what they are actually hiring for. I have been in this industry for over 25 year from being a grunt, all the way to three letter jobs. The most uncomfortable question in decision to open a job is "What are we trying to accomplish by opening this job?" In my experience if one is cut through the posturing the answer is "We need two developers with the following credentials because we believe that by having those developers we can increase the output -- more lines of code that we need to generate to make feature we promised on a road map ship. They need to know Angular/Javascript/Css/Node/Go/React/Kafka/K8s/RMQ and be ninjas". Should one drill down what that feature is one would find "It is a new dialog box and if a user is to click this button some things will happen and X email would be sent. Our users want this. We currently use backbone but we will be using Angular in future. API is written in node but we have a few projects to explore Go and we are using RMQ for queues though there's a team that is tinkering with Kafka" That's what the manager is actually hiring for. So the real job requirement is: "Need to get two butts in seats to build a dialog box to trigger an API action that would publish a message to a workflow queue. Must know a bit about backbone/css/javascript, nodejs and rabbitmq" [0] Recognizing that one wants to put butts in seats rather than someone who can spearhead the API move from nodejs to Go would change the entire dynamics. Hardcore interviews for the 1st make no sense -- if a person can think, you can teach them how to write some javascript, mangle some backbone code, create a new route in an existing Express application and publish a message to a queue. [0] Look at the hiring ads here. It looks like everyone is hiring Chief Architects that code.