@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

@arclight thank-you for the perspective. I feel like it's insane as well.

It also *doesn't fucking work*. I've worked with both wonderful and terrible programmers who have been selected by this process, it doesn't ensure anything.

@alda

@alda @arclight @requiem thus is the craziest part, that it doesn't even work. We'd be far better off selecting people who we think would be good to work with and then spending a full day of onboarding telling them, "glad you're here. Now this is how we expect you to act..."