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The Software Engineering Hiring Process Is Broken and Exclusionary
And we need to challenge it if we really want to attract diverse talent
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.
Interview processes are designed to find a once-in-a-lifetime individual that may not even exist. This usually translates into interviews asking for impossible things and taking too much time from the candidates. With this, not only we are annoying everybody, we are excluding minorities in STEM.
We need to be creative with the interviewing process. We need to redesign it so it can work as a way to find valuable signals in candidates without sucking their lives in the process. We need to stop being a high school bully in our first encounter with minority groups who try to find a spot in the tech sector.
The Interview Process Is Broken
Just talking with fellow developers or starting a simple Google search, you can contrast how popular is this statement:
Software engineering interviews are broken.
