I suspect that the main problem with hiring in our industry is that coders have the unfortunate tendency to treat other coders as if they were code. We treat jo

I suspect that the main problem with hiring in our industry is that coders have the unfortunate tendency to treat other coders as if they were code. We treat job interviews like they're some kind of unit test. Add this assertion, run this same unit test every time, reject the assertion failures. Humans are not code. We don't behave algorithmically. It's well known that job interviews are very poor predictors of performance. The best predictor of performance is past performance. It's not a perfect predictor by any means, but there are no perfect predictors. Hiring is a crapshoot. We need to get over the conceit that we can hire without making mistakes. To err is human.