New Year, New CEO for GitHub

Post by gaadd33 » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:03 AM UTC

Ryel wrote: post #49

georgemcbay wrote: post #29

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Using total number of github commits as any sort of qualifier for employment is as bad (maybe even worse) as asking for a wc -l LOC count on your last project. To be clear, I don't have an issue with github contributions being seen as a plus for hiring... but trying to turn this into something concretely quantifiable via total commit count (especially on commits you can't even see) seems crazy to me. Please let me kn…

They are not(I hope) judging quality of my work based on # of commits. -They are assuming I have little to no experience in a service they use every day. -They are assuming I don't contribute to Open Source in any way (I contribute to private repos that are at the core of several large OS projects but are private for business concerns). -Github provides an easy metric to see what most of my work is. I can see that 45…

Post by Ryel » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 5:22 AM UTC

gaadd33 wrote: post #71

Ryel wrote: post #49

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They are not(I hope) judging quality of my work based on # of commits. -They are assuming I have little to no experience in a service they use every day. -They are assuming I don't contribute to Open Source in any way (I contribute to private repos that are at the core of several large OS projects but are private for business concerns). -Github provides an easy metric to see what most of my work is. I can see that 45…

> They are assuming I don't contribute to Open Source in any way (I contribute to private repos that are at the core of several large OS projects but are private for business concerns). How are those open source? Or are they open source but not open to third party contributions? Or does development not take place on github? Just curious since if the code isn't public I'm curious how it's considered open source.

Post by saneshark » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 5:30 AM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #12

stonemetal wrote: post #10

For those of us who are business ignorant, what is the difference between President and CEO? What are the typical responsibilities of each and such?

It's different for every business but typically a CEO is the visionary, strategic leader of the company while the president leads the day-to-day operations. If Github started selling insurance, there's a good chance they would have a president for Github Code and a president for Github Insurance. They wouldn't have two CEO's, though.

Post by jim-greer » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 7:03 AM UTC

j_baker wrote: post #38

stonemetal wrote: post #10

For those of us who are business ignorant, what is the difference between President and CEO? What are the typical responsibilities of each and such?

That's really the question when it comes to having a separate president and CEO role (and often times having a separate CEO and chairman role). Who's really in charge, and what does the person who's not in charge do? There really isn't a good way to tell. Generally, it's either a sign that: 1. The President is being groomed for the CEO position once the "real" CEO leaves (such as Tim Cook). 2. One of the two needs to…

Post by crntaylor » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 8:37 AM UTC

frou_dh wrote: post #58

bionsuba wrote: post #54

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They say it's a art.