[bradleyjg]

> Hell, lawyers even?

It's pretty terrible. There's no other profession that's quite as snobby as the legal profession. If you want to go work for a top firm you need to have gone to one of a handful of law schools. While there you need to have gotten good grades in your first years' classes so that when on campus recruiting happens at the start of the second year you get an interview. These OCI interviews are almost entirely what the tech industry would call culture fit, with all the implications of bias that implies. One a summer position is obtained, the job is yours to lose. Do reasonable work, don't get drunk and vomit on a partner's spouse or blow off your third year classes and you will probably get a job offer with the firm you summered for.

I don't think this is a process any other field should try to emulate. Whiteboard interviews may have their flaw but it's a lot better than:

  Did you go to Harvard Law &&
  Did you get top 1/3 grades as a 1L &&
  Do you remind the partner you are interviewing with of himself and/or his kid