Cargo culting, and the fear of bad hires. Everyone wants "the best engineers". Probably 1% of tech firms work with deep tech, where boundaries are pushed, and e

Cargo culting, and the fear of bad hires. Everyone wants "the best engineers". Probably 1% of tech firms work with deep tech, where boundaries are pushed, and every percentage of improvement or degradation can result in non-trivial gains or losses. The rest can do just fine with normal engineers, and do interviews like the rest of the professional world.