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Discussion on: What's Wrong with the Tech Interview Process?

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Desolo Sub Humus 🌎🌍

To be honest, I think much of the problem boils down to two major issues.

In the effort to appear more open to a more financially diverse group, college requirements have been dropped, but replaced by code issues not really encountered outside of college. This means self-learners like me are still effectively shut out, while the company can use the PR to pat themselves on the back for being more inclusive.

In the effort to show that they can't possibly hire citizens from their own country and absolutely must hire lower paid remote developers from another country, unicorn-level requirements are added in the interview process. This allows the company to weed out as many candidates as possible, claim there are no qualified workers in their home country, and hire only people who are willing to work for half the pay. This isn't the fault of the foreign hires, but of the company. This has led to some companies listing job requirements like -

Must be able to make the perfect cup of espresso, have full skills for making realistic CGI videos, be able to code in Fortran, Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, React, Angular, Vue, and Scalar, be able to use Excel and TextEdit, be a subject expert at Machine Learning, and be able to shimmy up a coconut tree and pick coconuts in under 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Benefits include a foosball table and a photobooth in the breakroom.

  • for a simple, data entry job in the past.

Shell games for the job market suck.