> For most of us the people hiring and judging
> our work are programmers themselves ...
Is that really true? Do you think that most programmers are hired by other programmers, rather than by non-programmers?
I wonder if that is true. Certainly most programmers I know personally were interviewed by programmers, but the final decision was taken (admittedly with advice) by non-programming business people.
Where I work the decision to hire is made by the business, the actual candidate selection is done by programming team leads, with some input from the dev manager (whose role is mostly to look for red flags). I think the last time I was hired by someone who hadn't written code within the last 6 months was in the 90s.
I wonder if that is true. Certainly most programmers I know personally were interviewed by programmers, but the final decision was taken (admittedly with advice) by non-programming business people.