All hiring is extremely arbitrary. The reason coding is so bad is because there's this huge myth of lower class workers becoming coders overnight, just by study

All hiring is extremely arbitrary. The reason coding is so bad is because there's this huge myth of lower class workers becoming coders overnight, just by studying for a few months of leet code. There is an essay about the feminist movement in the 70s (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm). It makes the reasonable point that people are likely to hire/recruit people similar to themselves. The code interviews are expected to remove this, if you stick a bunch of CS people in a room and tell them to make an unbiased interview process; you'll get the hell world we live in today. To get a job on a sales floor, most of it is just impressing the existing gate-keepers. Coders live in a fantasy world where gate keeping isn't real. Except it isn't possible to remove that from hiring, no one wants to hire someone who doesn't integrate well in their team. So we have this hellworld where people can study for 3 months on leet code and nail the tech interview, they still won't get the job. Even though the "unbias" process says they should.