At some point you get old enough that you stop trying, and then you literally stop understanding. You can no longer imagine how people can be fooled by the smok

At some point you get old enough that you stop trying, and then you literally stop understanding. You can no longer imagine how people can be fooled by the smoke and mirrors coming from some candidates. And yet still they are fooled. And you realize that their version of the right person is so completely upside-down and sideways from the reality of who is actually good, you'd need to send them through a semester of 400-level "How to Recognize Good Engineers/Managers/Product" in order to even have a clear understanding and common terminology to start a discussion of what they should be looking for. And upon that realization, you understand why big corporations are inefficient, because this peter-principle archetype is allowed to have a say in hiring decisions. And there is nothing you can do. It's who you look like, not who you are.