Hiring in tech is mostly bullshit
The author critiques modern corporate hiring practices, specifically 'bar raiser' interviews and standardized scoring rubrics, labeling them as ineffective copycat rituals. The piece argues that these complex processes fail to identify actual talent and suggests a need for a more practical approach to recruitment.
Why it matters
It challenges the prevailing corporate orthodoxy regarding hiring, which has become a standard in the tech industry despite questionable efficacy.
please i beg you all stop it with your bar raiser interview nonsense you don’t need all this to spot real talent come on
That was the short version. This is the long one. Companies are full of shit: bar raiser loops, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), the Spotify model, sprints and standups are mostly complexity somebody copied from a bigger company without checking whether it ever worked there. In a lot of cases it didn’t and I went and checked. Then I want to show you why AI makes this urgent. And at the end, how I’d hire instead, which is how I got hired at all.
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