> current style of tech interviews has opened doors for [...] people who aren’t [...] born [...] into prestigious tech jobs. I really take issue with this line

> current style of tech interviews has opened doors for [...] people who aren’t [...] born [...] into prestigious tech jobs. I really take issue with this line of reasoning. The same thing was recently argued in relation to MIT going back to using SAT scores. The argument basically seems to be "Since no alternative to this is conceivable that isn't some form of racist/classist cronyism, this is actually the lesser evil". At some point in history, people probably said something like "Since no alternative to monarchy is conceivable that isn't some form of despotic warlordism, monarchy is actually pretty good". ...they just hadn't conceived of those alternatives yet. It sounds to me like simply a reflection of the political climate in the U.S. where there's a weird inversion of burden-of-proof whereby any decision making process is presumed a form of racist/classist cronyism unless proven otherwise. The more mechanized a decision making process is, the more amenable it is to this sort of proof. But I certainly don't want to live in the resulting dehumanized dystopia. Also, I'd question whether social reproduction is quantitatively a significant factor in selecting who tech jobs go to. The idea seems to be that engineer daddy gets son interested in engineering by doing science fair projects with him, sends him off to space camp, then pulls strings to get him into MIT and so forth. But, statistically, I'm expecting to have as many daughters as sons, and a daughter is statistically not going to be interested in tech. Even if it's a son, it's not clear whether he would have the personality traits and inclination. I wouldn't want to interfere with them either, as I'm not even sure that going into tech would be something I would want to do again if I could live my own life over. The latter is not true of wealth in general. I would always want my children to be wealthy, and they would always want to be wealthy, and handing over wealth is as easy as signing a piece of paper. These latter statements are oversimplifications, but they highlight how the analogy breaks down between social reproduction in relation to wealth in general and social reproduction in relation to having a prestigious tech job. -- Also, the question of whether tech jobs can be prestigious seems subjective to me, as there are a lot of negative stereotypes attached to tech.