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Comment by Cyndre | Hacker News Reader

I can't believe the general attitude programmers are putting forward. Here is a person in the medical field that requires at least twice the schooling, huge entry barriers etc getting an hour interview.

We are subjected to full day flights, multiple phone interviews etc.

She deals with life, not code.

This tells me one of two things. Either our hiring practices are severally broken, or its harder to program then be a doctor.

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Don't you think that it's possible that becoming a full MD doctor is a qualifications vouching system that programming lacks, and thus it's "every company for themselves" in terms of deciding who is actually qualified/worth hiring?

The amount of sub-par candidates that are nearly constantly looking is absolutely appalling to me, and is probably shocking to most of the non-hiring-managers reading HN.

Why is the interview process so intensive? Same reason gold mining is intensive. There's a lot more dirt than gold in both cases.

The sheer idea that bad doctors don't get through the "qualification" area is insane. They have just as many bad people getting through the qualification period that you speak of. The main difference would be if you didn't have a CS course. Then you start to enter a grey area.

And also I myself have been to more bad doctors then good doctors. There is just as big of gap between the poor doctors and the good doctors as there is in programming.

I think there's a cargo cult mentality around hiring process. Hiring the right person is hard, and hiring the wrong person can be devastating, so everyone's looking for a magic elixir.

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