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The regular tech interview is to figure out who is in the top 20%. If, and this is assuming a job market exists for *marginal* tech workers, and employers have a need for mid-range techie, then there probably should be some alternate process

Possibly 2-4 week trial at minimum wage and in return staff get hired more or less indiscriminately (no coding tests, no knowledge questions, no college degree, nothing difficult)

Another model is to hire people for $0, but put them through a one-month tech training & if they deliver no their project, they get hired, at lower than the usual wages. (This would make sense for the techie that can't land a job because interviews are too hard)

This is likely to have a different sort of fairness problem because the pool of unproven, marginal tech workers is huge, so in a stack of 200 marginal candidates, one ones with unfair signals (rich parents, probably white men) will bubble the top.

And by midrange, I mean, someone who probably can barely write code who most likely will be doing things on a software dev team peripheral to writing code, e.g. testing, computer operators, documentation, etc.