[alexfromapex]

This is so funny to read, as it just happened to me and I never have used referrals before. I literally had a glowing referral from my previous coworker who I worked with at a startup that later sold for $400 million because of work that I did directly and who is friends with a senior VP at the company I’m interviewing at but I also still had to interview with 4 other team members and do a take home test. I think the field has reached peak stupidity.