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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by pc86 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:30AM (#26793630)
So needlessly passive aggressive. FAANG jobs, right or wrong, are super competitive and extremely well compensated at senior levels. You just won't make the same amount of money writing BI software or CRUD line-of-business apps for an insurance company, it's not possible. When you've got that many resumes to go through you need to add whatever filtering mechanisms you can. Nobody does any BST stuff at work. But it's a filter. Reasonable people can disagree about how effective of one but it's at least no worse than just arbitrarily throwing half the resumes out, because the people who know it have some CS background, or they want the job bad enough they were willing to spend a couple hours to learn it. It's not like it's a high bar to meet.
Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by danjac on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:34AM (#26793710)
FAANG jobs are one thing: they are so big they have to have filters, even if those filters lose good people.

Small companies cargo-culting FAANG interview processes on the other hand...

Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by joelbluminator on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:34PM (#26795978)
Every startup that raised money can choose from dozens of candidates. I'm not really buying the "Software developer shortage" theory. If there was a real shortage we all wouldn't be jumping hoops learning bachelor degree material or doing home assignments for some startup interview when we have 15 years experience. But this isn't what shortage looks like, to me this feels saturated.
Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by heelix on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:30PM (#26794891)
>just arbitrarily throwing half the resumes out

how else to you filter out the unlucky candidates :)