That is the best that companies cargo culting the big four have for evaluating the skills and experience of professionals. The industry is going to have better

That is the best that companies cargo culting the big four have for evaluating the skills and experience of professionals. The industry is going to have better ways in the future for sure. The current state of the industry is that many have access to a computer and the attitude that programming pays a lot so just walk onto the job and into excellence. Reality is obviously further from that dream. Other comments have already shown other ways evaluating a programmer and I don't anything to really add.