entyphom

Just because your bubble exposes you to the craziest people doesn't mean they represent any majority. It's easy to see those screenshots of people being completely unreasonable, but the truth is most people who are "woke" aren't anything like that.

We see the world through the lens of social media optimised to make us angry at other groups of people.

Most of the people I know are queer and extremely leftist, and they're all massively annoyed at some of the bullshit performative wokeness we see. It's only a very very small minority of people who actually behave like that.

It's like what the linked article mentions with only 4% of people actually caring about the use of latinx. You get angry at people pushing for this and think progressives are stupid, but actual progressives are also annoyed at it because they know it's going to be used as an excuse to make their communities look stupid.

Idk what's a good conclusion on all this but I'd just say, keep in mind that extreme stuff you see online is usually not reflective of any sizeable amount of people

My better alternative is to just skip the code test part. You can still have the candidate chat with other engineers which is usually enough to be able to probe and figure if someone knows what they're talking about.

I can learn much more about the technical ability of a candidate by speaking to them about their projects and how they work than by checking whether they know how to implement a binary tree

It's not one 2 hour interview though, it's usually a 5 stage process if not more

That's where I think things should change. Programmers are in demand and very hard/expensive to hire. We tend to have the advantage in this process.

You can see an example of that with remote work. After covid, most people in tech simply refused to go back to being forced in an office full time, and would simply quit their current job in favor of one that accepts remote.

It's similar here. All you need is for enough programmers to start refusing to do those tests