Alternatively, a top company will hire someone straight out of undergrad with a CS degree from a top engineering school, but they won&#x27;t hire the guy who created Homebrew because he doesn&#x27;t have the algo for reversing a binary search tree memorized.<p>The problem with meritocracy is that it implicitly depends upon a heuristic, and heuristics can always be gamed or inadvertently biased, no matter the industry.<p>I think this was part of what the author was trying to say,  but I agree with you, it&#x27;s a poorly written and wishy-washy op-ed.