Too many people got into this industry, and too many people were able to easily switch between companies and boost their salaries absurd amounts. The big boys d

Too many people got into this industry, and too many people were able to easily switch between companies and boost their salaries absurd amounts. The big boys decided to use interview grinds to reduce turnover (that's why they all more or less have the same process) and all the people who started companies and came from these companies have been through and assume this process works due to the success of the big boys and they themselves being subjected to it. The reality is this profession isn't that hard, and majority of people working in it are pretty much just plumbers using the innovations of true computer scientists. We've managed to created a much more inefficient gatekeeping mechanism than just creating a proper certification process and commended ourselves for it and pretend it's somehow more meritocratic than just getting a comp sci/eng degree and license.