I wonder which other professions or trade ask people to perform infront of them in a simulated env as a filter criteria.
Actors for sure with auditions and maybe maybe chefs, male pornstars.
Welders, millwrights, machinists, carpenters, lots of trades have qualifying interviews. I’ve taken written exams in interviews for machining and welding as well as hands on show me parts.
Not that I agree with absurd interview process of software development but they often see themselves more akin to attorneys than tradesmen. The difference being attorneys have to pass a bar exam and even trades have journeyman cards to provide credibility.
Software development has none of that. Real engineering has PE licenses but how do you achieve that in such a broadly scoped field of software development?
We either play the interview game or find a way around it.
I may have a outdated notion about the trades you mentioned, but I have seen an "apprentice" model a lot. I have seen it with a masonry where the experienced guy was bringing in his nephew and teaching him on the job. A lot of these trades are family owned and have seen taking in people based on someone vouching for the new guy.
Maybe this varies country to country. I have seen this in India and UK atleast.
In UK atleast there are trades like roofing, landscaping, exterior building cleaning, masonry, tree surgeon etc which I have seen them are mostly family based.
This trade has never helped itself by insisting on being taken for a profession. A lot of these kids have never known the joys of time and a half - or the incentive that gives management to try to have all their s—t in one sock, every once in a while, for a change.
> maybe maybe chefs
staging [1] is very much a thing for kitchen staff
All sorts of managers and analysts have "project stages" where they have to analyze data and present a case study.