&quot;Rather, what if you simply placed a creative constraint on the organization that it could not grow by hiring strangers or unknown commodities?&quot;<p>So...make tech even more of an old-boys club than it already is?  Because that&#x27;s what people will be complaining about if the only way to get a job is to know someone or be known.<p>Really, there isn&#x27;t a solution here.  Any system you use to allocate desirable jobs to an oversupply of applicants will result in folks who believe they were unjustly excluded.  What <i>would</i> fix the problem is for people to define &quot;desirable&quot; in different ways, with a bias toward &quot;the place that I actually ended up at&quot;.  Love what you do, don&#x27;t do what you love.