To a founder, the success of the company means their own success. To a manager, success is to climb a ladder, any ladder. Their incentives are very different, and thus how they approach things will be.
There’s a 2x2 matrix you can put employees into with one side being smart/idiot and the other being lazy/industrious. There is no greater threat than the industrious idiot.
It’s been that way for 20+ years. It happens when companies don’t let the experts do the interview or try to filter before hand using HR or other cheaper labor.
It’s almost always a factor of not having enough people to run business processes… as soon as companies try to cut back and overwhelm employees, they find shortcuts to make their workload still manageable.
I think it’s usually people that allow themselves to get burnt out though… Far too many programmers treat it like a hobby, and are severely taken advantage of by employers. 9-5, go home and don’t touch a computer, It’s just like any other job then.
Meh. I’ve met brilliant juniors and worthless veterans. I think it’s more important to recognize brilliance in people… That spark of hard work combined with vision and creativity.
I mean, by the same logic, you could say every house should be built from steel. Of course old growth is stronger, just like steel is, but using them for the majority of cases would be simply ridiculous at scale.
Been the same on Reddit for a long time too, there are definitely some weirdly automated things out there. I kind of suspect it’s one of hundreds of campaigns by Russia/China to weaken western society by promoting conspiracy in every possible system for those vulnerable to it.
Well, agreed, but letting the recruiters filter has always been terrible and they always filter out talent more than they find it. It’s perhaps the most bone headed thing you could do in hiring.
Even just giving Leetcode questions isn’t enough anymore…
I’ve had plenty of people just memorize the top 50 used questions and be able to answer them, but then not be able to explain anything about their answer. It’s exhausting.
What changed? Well it was about 2010, The industry became a target for very low quality people to do whatever they could to land the job by faking and lying. All of these annoying interview tricks are just a way to try to filter out all the people (90% of them now) who taught themselves how to talk the talk but couldn’t program themselves out of a wet paper bag. And yes, there are ways to figure it out but it’s really hard given the current volume, and having your engineers stop and interview constantly kills productivity when you have to interview 20 people and only one can even count words in a file.
There is often a very technology and IT centric viewpoint on this website.
This is often the case anyway with technology positions, but for other things like accounting, medicine, law, etc formal education is more required.