@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 @alda i think the main problem with IT change in general is demonstating you know what you are talking about, can explain what you are talking about, can LEARN and develop.

On the employment side there is definitely a real issue with assumptions around fully formed people who just “know” a bullet list of acronyms.