&gt; Meritocracy<p>Meritocracy is a lie.  Look how broken interview processes are - definitely not meritocratic.  Meritocracy is a rationalisation for &quot;I hire people I like so long as they don&#x27;t say anything idiotic during the interview&quot;. You&#x27;d get better results from having some kind of bar that candidates have to meet and then just selecting one at random and giving that person the job.