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Experiment : hire 10% of candidates without conducting any interviews. Use Machine Learning to quantify internal or external candidates' code quality. Use that
by vijucat 10y ago
Experiment : hire 10% of candidates without conducting any interviews. Use Machine Learning to quantify internal or external candidates' code quality. Use that model to score candidates' GitHub. Hire them.
Well, OK, throw in a sociability / not-a-psycho score using LinkedIn or twitter or whatever.
I'd outsource this to gild.com who seem to know what they're doing.
Methinks management will be surprised at how well these 10% do despite not passing the usual "What happens when I flip all the color bits in a red-black tree" or whatever shibboleth is being used these days. Admit it : most work, even at Google, doesn't involve knowing how self-balancing trees work. On the other hand, getting things done matters everywhere.
- autotune 10y agoOne caveat: you can't use Machine Learning to quantify someone's overall personality and whether you actually want to work with them or not. Sure they can contribute quality code, but if they come in and have to do a 5 minute breakdance after each contribution or throw a hissy fit when their code gets critiqued, probably not a good culture fit.
- vijucat 10y agoTrue. Maybe (non-technical) team lunches / one-on-one lunches together before one seals the deal?