You are now the second person mentioning this in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682260) I re

You are now the second person mentioning this in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682260) I really had this case where a 22yr old open-source contributing child-prodigy programmer would be rejected at the code-screening phase by a guy, let's call him "Jon". We had a phone call with three people: HR, Jon and me. The reasons why Jon rejected the candidate were all a bit funny and I could not tell if Jon was serious or not. Also, Jon's Github contributions, pull requests and other things were rather shitty anyhow, but he was responsible for the first screenings so I had to listen to his feedback. Jon pinpointed to some problems in the candidate's code which were more style and not problems. Other things had good reason (verbose try catch blocks). When I started to get defensive and mentioned that the quality of the submission is better than Jon's stuff on Github, HR stopped me and told me "We're not assessing John here" Added it to the post.