I agree that there's a lot that the current hiring process get wrong. I'm not really defending it, but want to clarify a few things. > They're scaring off and

I agree that there's a lot that the current hiring process get wrong. I'm not really defending it, but want to clarify a few things. > They're scaring off and filtering out excellent candidates with these excessive processes. In my experience this is by design. The cost of a false positive (hiring someone they shouldn't) is far more expensive than a false negative (passing on a good candidate). Since FAANGs usually have a healthy pipeline of candidates and many who fail will eventually reapply they're okay with passing on possibly qualified candidates. > None of them even cared about my Github repository that's full of code I write for fun. As an EM at a mid to large tech company who has hired plenty of engineers I think ignoring people's Github is the right call and I don't even bother looking at candidate's Github unless it's for something like an intern role. Ignoring the fact that I don't know where the code on Github came from (did someone else write it? Is this just following a tutorial?), the code you write and the skills you use when you're writing code at home alone on a passion project is VERY different than the skills you need to be successful in a large, slow moving, bureaucratic corporation.