I definitely agree that for a startup team, Github is making CS interview questions extinct. Even github itself claims so: http://ozmm.org/posts/who_we_hire.htm

I definitely agree that for a startup team, Github is making CS interview questions extinct. Even github itself claims so: http://ozmm.org/posts/who_we_hire.html http://ozmm.org/posts/who_we_hire.html - "at GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X," where X is an awesome project we all use or admire." However, it is a different question if you are running a company like Google or Facebook. For instance, recently there was a news that Google received > 75,000 applicants and is looking to grow by more than 5000 employees this year. http://goo.gl/9fpkt http://goo.gl/9fpkt If you want to scale at this level, you won't have time to look at Github or similar sites for every candidate in detail. There will also be great candidates who have never published their code (although they might be the minority). To maintain hiring standards in this kind of situation efficiently, asking very difficult algorithmic questions might be the only way to go - at least you will be able to maintain the same hiring standards for 75,000 applicants.