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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by BurningFrog on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:49PM (#22394129)
The good way to hire is to recruit people someone has worked with before and can vouch for.

If you do good enough work at a job that your coworkers will want to work with you again, you've got it made and can choose between jobs for the rest of your career.

If you don't impress coworkers that way, you need to go through this crazy stranger interviews talked about here. Do try hard to avoid that!

Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by inertiatic on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:51AM (#22395366)
In what universe is this true?

In all the companies I've worked for, referrals for ICs meant that these people were prioritized for interviewing, not that they skipped the process. And no one, not even the manager of the hiring manager, had enough say in hiring someone that they could simply decide to skip the process

Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by BurningFrog on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:03PM (#22399847)
One thing I've learned in this industry is that it contains many, quite separate universes!