<story><title>Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-on-stack-overflow-inclusion-and-how-he-broke-it-recruiting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vouaobrasil</author><text>Nah, I don&amp;#x27;t think Spolsky is responsible. What is really responsible is that computers themselves influence people to think algorithmically. I know that sounds weird, but I observed after doing a degree in math: after a lot of work in mathematics, I started to think much more analytically and algorithmically. I think the same thing happens at tech companies, and that&amp;#x27;s why Spolsky was so inclined to make the process more efficient: tech companies are themselves reactors to grow the algorithmic way of thinking in people, and that in turn causes people to seek for algorithmic solutions such as the hiring system we have today.&lt;p&gt;Yes, Spolsky might have created some new hiring practice, but if it wasn&amp;#x27;t for him, it would be someone else because it is a natural consequence of a large group of people thinking in an algorithmic way for years and years.&lt;p&gt;If cults can influence poeple to commit mass suicide, surely ten years of math and programming can influence people to become more like machines.</text></comment>
<story><title>Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-on-stack-overflow-inclusion-and-how-he-broke-it-recruiting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sp3dy5</author><text>&amp;quot;I think you need a better system, and I think it’s probably going to be more like an apprenticeship or an internship, where you bring people on with a much easier filter at the beginning. And you hire them kind of on an experimental basis or on a training basis, and then you have to sort of see what they can do in the first month or two.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;How does he expect this to work? Developers quit their job to &amp;quot;try out&amp;quot; and some percentage just get fired immediately?</text></comment>