> Our industry's hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious.
Agreed. The solution is to not work at a tech company, but instead work in a tech capacity at a real company.
- No silly games (before or after hiring).
- Better benefits (I'd rather have proper health coverage and a pension than a room full of toys and vaporware stock options).
- Immensely more job security (Henry Ford didn't have an "exit strategy").
- People respect you more as a professional with a needed skillset, and not a throwaway cog in a machine who can be replaced or offshored on a whim.
- And in many real companies, proper internal HR groups focused on making you a better person and a better employee, and not some farmed-out commission-based headhunter group that makes money on employee churn.
> In an ideal world, you could trust someone's resume.
That's not an ideal world. That's the real world. Meaning not SV, and its wannabes.
Agreed. The solution is to not work at a tech company, but instead work in a tech capacity at a real company.
- No silly games (before or after hiring).
- Better benefits (I'd rather have proper health coverage and a pension than a room full of toys and vaporware stock options).
- Immensely more job security (Henry Ford didn't have an "exit strategy").
- People respect you more as a professional with a needed skillset, and not a throwaway cog in a machine who can be replaced or offshored on a whim.
- And in many real companies, proper internal HR groups focused on making you a better person and a better employee, and not some farmed-out commission-based headhunter group that makes money on employee churn.
> In an ideal world, you could trust someone's resume.
That's not an ideal world. That's the real world. Meaning not SV, and its wannabes.