My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)
I'm more impacted by the inverse: as someone who's done programming for decades, been hired many times, been  promoted, survived multiple layoff rounds (and moved cities and states to stay loyal), started and ran my own computer game biz, had independent clients I've shipped for successfully, has technical writing artifacts online, and code in my public GitHub repos I should NOT have to be "tested" by now to check if I'm a real programmer or not, or whether I'm smart, or whether I solve and ship. I clearly have and do. Therefore its nauseating, insulting, seems insane and just plain gets old.I sometimes wonder if experienced engineers should begin "testing" hiring companies by requiring them to send a typical paycheck deposit -- you know, just to be 100% sure they have the ability to do that, rather than blindly trusting them in good faith.Perhaps we should start a guild?