[petesergeant]

All fair points and I guess I would dislike it more if it hadn’t benefitted me more. In general, if I can get face-to-face with a human then I have a huge advantage, and any barriers to getting to that point are a net negative to me.

At the start of my career I was under-credentialed, and had to rely on lax requirements to get myself in front of people. I might never have gotten anywhere if my first few employers hadn’t been willing to overlook a lack of degree or commercial (rather than open-source) experience, directly as a result of a funnel with a wide entrance.