Here's me hoping that hiring managers / HR will finally start actually calling references and/or checking open source contributions. I have plenty of both, and in my 14 year career have had only 2 companies call my references, 1 check my open source work. So far they all just give me some bs test job to prove that I can do basic CRUD programming despite being a senior engineer, over and over and over again, which could all be avoided with just a phone call and a basic conversation about tech stuff with their technical team ... but they are either lazy, incompetent, or a combination of both, so I get a bs test job - sometimes even before I manage to actually get the first interview. I decline all of these, of course, but there's so many and it has made job searching quite difficult.