because they don't want to pay for your experience, and because engineers interviewing engineers quickly results in some kind of "who is smarter" competition, w

because they don't want to pay for your experience, and because engineers interviewing engineers quickly results in some kind of "who is smarter" competition, which eventually drives down the cost of hiring... and unfortunately it seems to make it easy for companies to streamline the hiring process even though the end result is that the "wrong" type of engineer is hired. I have almost 20 years of IP development behind me, none of it is on github, because I paid for it out of my own pocket. I have products in the market. companies i've interviewed with don't want to take any of this into account BUT they would sure love to get their hands on my work, and try to extract tidbits of IP out of me during interviews (even though they do not want to let me talk about my work as an alternative to their ridiculous and irrelevant leetcode questions).