There are boot camps for developer interviews now. The practice is bad and it is inhumane. They will eventually go the way of other unintended gatekeeping disasters like the standardized high school/college tests.
The practice is just a veiled hazing ritual meant to strip you of dignity and agency.
If it isn't meant to do that...well, guess what? That's what it is doing.
And if I study real hard and maybe take a boot camp, I can join one of the illustrious paragons of internet virtue such as Facebook (sorry, meta block chain addicts inc.) or Google to spread ad-tech throughout the known universe.
The practice is just a veiled hazing ritual meant to strip you of dignity and agency.
If it isn't meant to do that...well, guess what? That's what it is doing.
And if I study real hard and maybe take a boot camp, I can join one of the illustrious paragons of internet virtue such as Facebook (sorry, meta block chain addicts inc.) or Google to spread ad-tech throughout the known universe.