Why are interviews harder than the job?

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56 points mooreds | 1 comments | 29 Sep 25 12:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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em500 ◴[29 Sep 25 13:16 UTC] No.45413365[source]▶

Valid points, but I think the most obvious reason is that (at least the recognizable) employers are swamped with applications that all look great on paper, which likely got much worse with the rise of good LLMs. Compared with similar high paying carreers, like medicine (multi-year residency) or high finance (solving math and probability problems on the spot), the hiring process for software engineers isn't especially gruesome.

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silvestrov ◴[29 Sep 25 13:27 UTC] No.45413497[source]▶

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"multi-year residency" in medicine is part of the education.

We don't have that for software development.

I'd say that the problem is that the diplomas (degree certificate, ...) are useless when hiring software developers.

A doctor who has a diploma is much more likely to be a useful/good doctor than a person with a "computer science" diploma will be a good developer.

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1. zdragnar ◴[29 Sep 25 13:37 UTC] No.45413616[source]▶

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Back when I started, I think maybe half of the people I worked with had a relevant degree at most. Even that might be an overestimate.

Back then, CS degree programs didn't even teach higher level languages than C/++ as they were thought to change too quickly. Whatever you learned during your four years wouldn't apply after you graduated. Instead, the programs focused on the low level implementation details with the theory that was where the engineering and science were.

Now, the same school I went to has courses and tracks for web technologies, so who knows.

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