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I really don't buy that a resume alone can sufficiently put across your actual level of ability as a Software Engineer. And there are plenty of people who are b

I really don't buy that a resume alone can sufficiently put across your actual level of ability as a Software Engineer. And there are plenty of people who are better talkers than doers. One way or another I think it's entirely reasonable to want to see actual code. If you want to do that by way of an open source portfolio, sure. But not everyone has open source contributions, so then I would need some other process for acquiring a work sample. I have seen many people here say you should hire people on a contract basis for a few days/a week. I don't know what it's like doing that in the US, but for the UK market that sounds like a ton of administrative overhead for both parties to take on in order to establish if they are even a good fit.

sidlls 8y ago
This style of interview works in plenty of other professions that are much more rigorous than software development. You'll be hard pressed to find an aerospace engineering company that is going to ask candidates to evaluate integrals on the whiteboard that they'd normally look up in the CRC or implement a numerical solution for (probably using a prepackaged library), for example. Yet you're proposing an analog of this very thing here.
actionowl 8y ago
> But not everyone has open source contributions In my experience, anyone we've hired WITH open source contributions has been 10x better than those without.