Completely agree. I recently left a top hedge fund, and for a period around 2019, their hiring process got so silly that it could be succinctly described as the

Completely agree. I recently left a top hedge fund, and for a period around 2019, their hiring process got so silly that it could be succinctly described as they only wanted to hire Linus Torvalds to do linux administration. Around this time, a previous boss of mine was back in the market, at least theoretically, and I convinced him to at least have a conversation with my firm. I even spoke with the HR recruiter beforehand, and was like listen, you need to sell Impact here, and not just in dollar terms, but in organizational change, openness to open source, etc... and the HR rep seemed pretty taken aback- they seemed to feel that just the name on the wall should be all thats needed. It was so ridiculous though, you aren't going to get people that have defined internet standards, started successful companies, invented important things... to come work at a place to bang out Jiras and get beat up over made up deadlines. And on top of that they were being completely inflexible and were not allowing remote work. Even if you pay them 7 figures, most of these types are already independently wealthy and that's not their motivation at that point in their careers.