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>My thought was since obviously I could do the job, then they would hire me without having to go through the usual interviewing steps. I would certainly hope n
by ivanbakel 7y ago
>My thought was since obviously I could do the job, then they would hire me without having to go through the usual interviewing steps.
I would certainly hope not. It's one thing to fast-track from an internship or a coding camp, but any company that would be willing to do that for an open-source contributor who's never been interacted with in a professional environment would have serious problems with its hiring standards.
- hu3 7y agoFrom what I gather you're either: 1) Assuming it would be OP's first job. 2) Requiring previous professional interaction before even a job interview. Both seems weird to me and I'm grateful my first company didn't have those requirements for hiring.
- neilv 7y agoDepends on what you skip. If it's already obvious that someone can code, then parts like leetcode look like either dimwitted corporate inflexibility, or a transparent hazing power play. It seems like the majority of people in supposedly innovative dotcoms have oddly lumbering-big-corporate-drone ideas about this right now. Someone thinks they shouldn't have do to a distracting battery of whiteboard leetcode hazing, when obviously they can code, and they're happy to have real technical discussions-- and we're turned off by their prima donna arrogance. Their failure to comply with every unreasonable or abusive corporate demand is a showstopper. (That sounds like the kind of person who might object if they find out our entire business model is secretly spying on people and controlling them!) If the applicant further suggested that they also would like some basis for evaluating their prospective team members (just normally; not whiteboard hazing them), we'd totally flip out, and for years later would be mocking the arrogance of that one uppity jerk, who don't appreciate how our revered VC fore-funders commanded us, over 10 years ago, how software development culture works.
- 0xffff2 7y agoInternship sure, but how on Earth does a code bootcamp rank above actual contributions as an indicator of professional conduct?
- ivanbakel 7y agoBecause a bootcamp requires face-to-face interaction. Contributions are no indicator of conduct - they just show you can submit patches. How you behave in a professional environment has to be judged from actually speaking to you.
- lonelappde 7y agoWhoa, you are saying that demonstrably skilled practitioners without face time need an interview (fine), but people who face timed somebody else with no demonstrated professional skills deserves to skip interview?