The Software Engineering Hiring Process Is Broken and Exclusionary

And we need to challenge it if we really want to attract diverse talent

Broni Glez
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readJun 4, 2021

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Many companies are still stuck on the idea of hiring that mythological 10x developer, so their selection process resembles more of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix than a realistic and honest engineering interview.

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