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> Also, the bug buster benefits if they get up high on the leaderboard, because job recruiters will most likely use the leaderboard for lead gen. If you're look

> Also, the bug buster benefits if they get up high on the leaderboard, because job recruiters will most likely use the leaderboard for lead gen. If you're looking to make a job move, moving up on the leaderboard will help. I already get plenty of recruiting inbound without having to donate my time to fix bugs for Internet Points. What you're saying is that this is a worthy use of time for people because they'll maybe move up in the leaderboards which then might lead recruiters to reach out to them. And after all that, you have to do a phone screen, technical phone interview, a full-day onsite, plus whatever other hoops you'll be made to jump through to change jobs. Yeah, no. Hard pass. Seems like a huge waste of developers' time.

jedberg 5y ago
> I already get plenty of recruiting inbound without having to donate my time to fix bugs for Internet Points. You're not the target audience. And also, you wouldn't be donating your time. The whole point is that a company puts up a contest for their own employees, who are presumably getting paid to participate.
- hnechochamber 5y ago
  the target audience are people stupid enough to work for amazon for free. Amazon, fuck you pay me.
- bogwog 5y ago
  So by participating in this, a company is making their own employees more attractive to recruiters?
  - jedberg 5y ago
    No the company is getting some extra structure to their bug bash with some prizes provided by Amazon, as well as being able to recruit other people by pointing out how good their current people are (because they are on the leaderboard).
    - jjav 5y ago
      Everything about this seems like a sketch out of The Office (if they were a software company).
slownews45 5y ago
How are you employed if you won't fix bugs. These types of devs are so annoying to be around. Crank out weird esoteric hard to read code using every weird meta feature / reflections / introspections they can. Then "hard pass" on fixing bugs as a waste of time. You do realize most developers are asked to fix bugs anyways, regardless of any silly competition? Their pitch to Organizations is that 1) They may be able to help you save money 2) They may make it more fun / easier to solve bugs. Pitch to developers - they'll give you some perks for doing your job. Note that I also think it's lame because I don't think code guru is that good and don't care about re"invent
- theli0nheart 5y ago
  > How are you employed if you won't fix bugs. These types of devs are so annoying to be around. Crank out weird esoteric hard to read code using every weird meta feature / reflections / introspections they can. Then "hard pass" on fixing bugs as a waste of time. You misread pretty much everything I wrote. My original comment wasn't an explanation for why fixing bugs in general is a "waste of time". My opinion is that uploading your code to this service that uses ML to automatically generate bugs for your team to do a bug bash on is a waste of time. Our bug backlog has hundreds, if not thousands, of bugs already. We don't need to rely on ML to tell us what to fix. We have real issues that customers are facing that need immediate attention. This is just a total distraction and a waste of time.
- ARandumGuy 5y ago
  Unless I'm completely misunderstanding how this works, this isn't "give you some perks for doing your job." It's getting perks for doing your job, for someone who isn't paying you. And that's what the problem is. If you want me to fix your bugs, pay me for it. Don't do this gamification nonsense. Edit: apparently I did misunderstand how this works. It seems like the "Bugbusters" are just a company's normal developers. It still seems kinda dumb, but not as exploitative as I initially thought.
  - jedberg 5y ago
    They're marketing page isn't super clear, but it's adding structure for a company's existing bug bashes. You set up a bug hung for your own developers on your own code.
the_arun 5y ago
Why bug leaderboard is important? Don't I have few ways already to showcase my profile? 1. Stackoverflow to show my expertise 2. Any Open source contribution that shows up in my github profile
catbuttes 5y ago
> We will pay you with exposure...

jedberg 5y ago

> I already get plenty of recruiting inbound without having to donate my time to fix bugs for Internet Points. You're not the target audience. And also, you wouldn't be donating your time. The whole point is that a company puts up a contest for their own employees, who are presumably getting paid to participate.

hnechochamber 5y ago
the target audience are people stupid enough to work for amazon for free. Amazon, fuck you pay me.
bogwog 5y ago
So by participating in this, a company is making their own employees more attractive to recruiters?
- jedberg 5y ago
  No the company is getting some extra structure to their bug bash with some prizes provided by Amazon, as well as being able to recruit other people by pointing out how good their current people are (because they are on the leaderboard).
  - jjav 5y ago
    Everything about this seems like a sketch out of The Office (if they were a software company).

slownews45 5y ago

How are you employed if you won't fix bugs. These types of devs are so annoying to be around. Crank out weird esoteric hard to read code using every weird meta feature / reflections / introspections they can. Then "hard pass" on fixing bugs as a waste of time. You do realize most developers are asked to fix bugs anyways, regardless of any silly competition? Their pitch to Organizations is that 1) They may be able to help you save money 2) They may make it more fun / easier to solve bugs. Pitch to developers - they'll give you some perks for doing your job. Note that I also think it's lame because I don't think code guru is that good and don't care about re"invent

theli0nheart 5y ago
> How are you employed if you won't fix bugs. These types of devs are so annoying to be around. Crank out weird esoteric hard to read code using every weird meta feature / reflections / introspections they can. Then "hard pass" on fixing bugs as a waste of time. You misread pretty much everything I wrote. My original comment wasn't an explanation for why fixing bugs in general is a "waste of time". My opinion is that uploading your code to this service that uses ML to automatically generate bugs for your team to do a bug bash on is a waste of time. Our bug backlog has hundreds, if not thousands, of bugs already. We don't need to rely on ML to tell us what to fix. We have real issues that customers are facing that need immediate attention. This is just a total distraction and a waste of time.
ARandumGuy 5y ago
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding how this works, this isn't "give you some perks for doing your job." It's getting perks for doing your job, for someone who isn't paying you. And that's what the problem is. If you want me to fix your bugs, pay me for it. Don't do this gamification nonsense. Edit: apparently I did misunderstand how this works. It seems like the "Bugbusters" are just a company's normal developers. It still seems kinda dumb, but not as exploitative as I initially thought.
- jedberg 5y ago
  They're marketing page isn't super clear, but it's adding structure for a company's existing bug bashes. You set up a bug hung for your own developers on your own code.

the_arun 5y ago

Why bug leaderboard is important? Don't I have few ways already to showcase my profile? 1. Stackoverflow to show my expertise 2. Any Open source contribution that shows up in my github profile

catbuttes 5y ago

> We will pay you with exposure...