Unfortunately, blind hiring&#x2F;promotion would take all the power out of the hiring&#x2F;promotion game. Most medium&#x2F;large sized companies have a flourishing trade in promotions&#x2F;bonuses: you help me back one of my people for promotion to director this year, and I&#x27;ll make sure you get feature XYZ by the end of the year.<p>These types of power networks are what make big companies run. Not that taking them away would necessarily be a bad thing, but there would be a LOT of resistance.