> "Why can't you look at a developer's portfolio, education, projects they've built, GitHub repo, talk with past employers, check references...and from that mak

> "Why can't you look at a developer's portfolio, education, projects they've built, GitHub repo, talk with past employers, check references...and from that make an informed hiring decision?" I have no Github, portfolio, nor education. My previous companies have a bad engineering culture. So they’ll give me good references, since they don’t know any better. I have trouble writing a fizz buzz and yet that system could have me hired.