[sailorganymede]

Pretty much this. Companies needed software engineers, looked at what Google was doing, and copied. And they call themselves innovative for doing it.

[a_wild_dandan]

Ah, so to reach their hiring destination, their preferred mode of transportation is the bandwagon.

[sailorganymede]

Methinks it’s a good enough method to somehow get good enough candidates. Hiring is hard because it’s a negotiation: sellers always upsell their skills and buyers gotta figure it out. Negotiation is skill that not everyone has so at least by having some sort of standard test like the current leetcode system, you can guarantee the dudes coming in know the difference between a Stack and Queue

[baner2020]

A company whose smart engineers threw their hands up claiming no moat while they were the pioneer of AI