The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
Technical interviews were once seen as a breath of fresh air.<p>You can be a nobody without connections or degrees and if you can prove you have skills during an interview process you may be hired.<p>Contrast this with other hiring processes which are more irrational, like med residency match, investment banks favoring &quot;target school graduates&quot;, law firms favoring &quot;top 14 graduates&quot;, etc.<p>I think whiteboarding is dumb and I&#x27;m increasingly unwilling to go through with it. That&#x27;s a hurdle.<p>But in many careers the hiring processes are walls, as in there is 0% chance you&#x27;ll get hired. Because you don&#x27;t know someone, because you didn&#x27;t go to the right school. The barriers have little correlation with ability to do the job, and more importantly after some milestone has been crossed it&#x27;s impossible for you to improve your chances.