Software hiring is chaotic and immature to the extreme. As a former JavaScript developer most employers have absolutely no idea what they want in a candidate. I

Software hiring is chaotic and immature to the extreme. As a former JavaScript developer most employers have absolutely no idea what they want in a candidate. It’s a constant tug of war between competency, social compatibility, and ease of replacement. The result is a technically unqualified candidate barely mature enough to put text on screen in very narrow constraints and yet immature enough to believe it’s a form of mastery shaped by a decade of careful molding. In most cases the evaluation process is a series of basic literacy tests, code fashion assessments, and homework that exists more for testing gullibility than technical achievement. In other industries it’s simple as there is only licensing, broker/agent model, or both. Everything else is a secondary evaluation of prior achievement and personality. I suspect the real reasons software fails to adapt to any kind of industry standard is because software does not want to accept liability for its products and because it wants maximum freedom to hire/fire candidates of its choosing irrespective of costs.