It can be an equalizer, no doubt about that. Probably the biggest reason I hope it works its way into our culture the way credit and bank card transactions have. That and privacy, which these exchanges have none of.
Now there is a language I haven't heard about in a very long time. I actually briefly worked for a company that developed a whole system with TAS, that they then sold to optometrists.
Motorola basically did the same thing in a Northern Illinois community. I think the massive site stayed open a little more than a year. It still today remains a huge empty space sitting in the prairie some fifteen year on.
Similar outcome, but happened for different reasons. The CEO lived in McHenry and, essentially, wanted work to be closer to his house. When the plant was closed, it was because Motorola had been fundamentally mismanaged, which is different from IBM's cost-cutting to maintain its successful strategy.
I am in the Rockford area and saw a lot of friends suffer financially because of Motorola's missteps. Rockford also competed with Dubuque to get IBM, and for the same reasons (vague intentions to anchor a tech scene), but was disqualified early in the selection process because it didn't have a minimum threshold of college graduates.
Astonishing. Did you realize what your responsibilities would be when you were hired? Could only imagine having to do a full blown tech interview to find out the position was mundane and could be scripted.
No, the interview was fairly vague and thus partly my fault for not getting a better description.
To be fair, the other areas within that office were hardware related (setting up SANs, configuring and cabling them up) so had I stayed I would have learned that.
I described it like this to friends who asked: what I wanted was "The Unix/Linux System Administrators Handbook", what I got was "Chapter 8: Storage" or even just the "Disk Partitioning" subsection of Chapter 8 of that book. ;)
I wonder if there is a use for an SaaS that spits out the license plate number for Uber drivers. Uh Oh, I think this time I may have stated something that deserves being banned. Evil is as evil does.
Unfortunately, the nature of the technical interview allows for easy disqualification of an individual. Miss a semi colon, something we all have done, you're disqualified. Coupled with the preconceived notions of the interviewer, even the most skilled individual can be disqualified with ease. Doesn't bode well in a industry that seems rampant with issues regarding age and gender .
