I’ve been working in tech for last 2 decades, first as a freelance web developer and now as a Front End Developer and UI/UX Designer (with a few fun startups in the middle doing a bit of everything), I love the web and how it has blossomed into a huge,mostly beautiful and diverse ecosystem, one constant through all these years has unfortunately been the hiring process, it is considered broken and surviving it while good for most is a less than ideal situation. I am personally baffled by it, and this is my attempt at making some sense of it.
Note: I am always interviewing and applying for jobs whenever I can, why ? it’s like dating, if you want to go out on a date, ask 10 prospective partners out, if you want to get good at dating, go on 10 dates, (ask 100 datees out ), same logic different problem, also it is informative and even though I am mostly a freelance/remote developer & designer, every so often the conditions/company/project are good enough to consider being hired as a full time employee, companies I think do the same.
So what’s the perceived problem ?
It has always seemed to me a bizarre,arcane, offensive & complex ritual, I suspect it is inefficient and perhaps most baffling most companies seem to be okay with it, the HR lady (or…
