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Meh. I don't buy it. I agree with the parent that it's usually people not getting hired being mad about it.

- "interviewing is broken" is a meaningless linkbait title. All you can really say is it's less efficient than it could be.

- In fact, interviewing in tech might be the best of any industry. Look how good we are at hiring minorities, people without college degrees, people who don't wear suits, people with verbal tics, or even tattoos. That wouldn't happen in investment banking.

- If your point IS that hiring could be better, then instead of winging, propose a fast and simpler and cost-effective alternative, and then try to give some hard evidence that the method you propose is better than whatever you're winging about (usually leet code).

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^ These are some of the reasons why I start in this industry. I’m a minority who is self-taught and hates wearing suits/business-wear every day (also, it’s so damn cool go from having an idea to having it built and seeing it in the wild in the span of a few weeks to months).

One of my most popular HN posts [1] is about how the job search sucks so I empathize a lot. However, I have little interest in working for “top” companies.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127697

[1]: https://blog.webb.page/2018/why-the-job-search-sucks

This is a mindblowing response to me. To say "look at how good we are a hiring minorities" feels like it has to be an obvious troll.

We are extremely good at hiring minorities, so good in fact that we stopped calling Asians minorities.

Asians don't count as minorities. We privilege now!

> It's usually people not getting hired being mad about it.

Or it’s a bunch of very competent coders annoyed that they’re made to jump through hoops.

People doing the hiring are complaining, not just the people failing to get hired.

> Look how good we are at hiring minorities

Wait, what? Are you talking about the software industry?

In terms of providing high paying jobs with good career progressions to minority groups that doesn't necessarily discriminate on the basis of prior education, credentials, background (or lack thereof), yeah, I'd say software engineering is pretty decent compared to many other industries.

Aye. I've never seen a software team in my country that were all natives. Software doesn't care where you're from, at least when you're writing it.