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Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

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Re: Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

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Post by mcginniwa »

sown wrote: post #39

This demand that people write tons and tons of code on our off hours is understandable but is getting, I dunno, obnoxious? If not tons , then perhaps something of very high quality. I could write a nifty little linked list implementation but would it really show that I'd be a good programmer for your particular needs? If you think it does, I predict having code written in off hours is a requirement will result in git…

You are operating under a false assumption. That is that all public repositories (i.e. Open Source) are filled with work by unpaid volunteers. That is simply not the case for a large portion of Open Source projects (and therefore public GitHub repositories).

I've been an Open Source contributor for more than a decade. I would say 90% of my open source contributions have been work where I'm extending or improving an Open Source project's code to suit a paying client's needs.

Re: Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

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Post by mcginniwa »

Hey Githire,

I think the service is good, but I have a couple points of feedback.

When calculating the profile of a user, rather than only looking into repositories under the user's name, you should also take into account the code under any organizations the user is apart of. Most of my coding is publicly committed under an organization repository.

A solution is either to look at all of a user's commits rather repositories or take into a user's organization repositories, too.

Other lesser pieces of feedback:

* The typography and a lot of the images look "fuzzy" to the eye and give off a cheap impression. I would definitely rework those until they give a quality impression.

* Add a "contact us" link in your header or footer or both. I shouldn't have to rely on HN to give you feedback.

Re: Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

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Post by technomancy »

danso wrote: post #58

So...has anyone found a profile that's NOT in the top 20% or better? If I'm in the top 20% for putting in test commits than the software dev world is in dire trouble.

> the software dev world is in dire trouble

I thought we were taking this as a given.

Re: Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

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Post by its_so_on »

xxqs wrote: post #23
LeafStorm wrote: post #20

One major flaw: it assumes anyone you would want to hire uses Github, as opposed to Bitbucket, Gitorious, Google Code, Launchpad, the numerous other code hosts I missed, or hosting their code on their own server. And if Github becomes "the standard" for hosting software such that everyone looks for code and coders on Github instead of other places, that would be detrimental to the FOSS community as a whole - not only…

don't forget the good old sourceforge and freshmeat. besides, only about 10%, if not less, of registered github users do actual coding. Most of the users just follow the updates or fork and add patches.

I can see when you last checked out freshmeat :)

Re: Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

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Post by erichmond »

Most of the best programmers I know don't even have github accounts because they're so busy writing great closed-source code during the day, and living interesting and varied nightlives that allow them to stay refresh and producing high quality code during the day.

I'm not saying you can't find great developers via github, just that you're limiting yourself to an extremely small pond, even if it seems big.

Re: Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

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Post by derickson »

ww520 wrote: post #56

Instead of writing a half-ass project on your free time and putting the source code in Github, build and maintain a product/website/app. It has more creds. It shows you can ship a COMPLETE product instead of some code snippets.

Totally agree.
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