Tool Fetishism. When platform hiring mistakes tooling familiarity for engineering capability

Part 3 of seven. Filtering for Terraform plus Argo plus Backstage plus a specific service mesh stops being a skills filter and becomes a brand filter. The candidates who pass the brand filter aren't always the ones who can build the platform.

This essay is being written to the same standard as the rest of the series. We'd rather hold it back than publish a thin draft. Check back, or read what's already published.