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> Chefs actually are subject to being tasted before hire. It doesn’t happen in a 1hr interview

Exactly. What you're describing is more closer to doing a take home and then explaining it.

> Doctors go through excessive amounts if additional schooling and board certification to prove they know how to e.g. cut open a body.

So not part of the interview? It's not like there aren't certification in the industry, e.g. AWS, Microsoft, Java, etc etc.

> Maybe you’re asking for the software industry to become more formalized in skillset requirements? Or maybe engineers should bring their portfolio instead?

I doubt "formalization" helps (see above, some of it exists and those are off the mark just as well). In essence leet code is the "formalized" requirement. It's just a bad 1.

I'm asking to come back to common sense.

Again, doctors don't cut open a body live as part of the interview. So even if I have my AWS certifications (equivalent of your example) the interviewer will and still does ask me to do a live system design interview. How is that the same?



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