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It might be interesting to estimate how much smaller the candidate pool would be if you tried to evaluate people that way. For what subset of the developer popu
by marssaxman 4y ago
It might be interesting to estimate how much smaller the candidate pool would be if you tried to evaluate people that way. For what subset of the developer population would any significant quantity of professional work be visible on their personal github account?
- devrob 4y agoThat's a great point. My only counter consideration might be that one's resume which states: "I built XYZ at $COMPANY and resulted in $Xm in revenue growth" and one could simply show the person the product or area under which professional worked. Per your point regarding candidate pool to evaluate, would you consider it fair to say that you see the purpose of the live problems and technical projects as a means of normalizing the ground of analysis (i.e. comparing apples to apples versus apples to oranges)?
- tsukikage 4y ago"I built XYZ at $COMPANY and resulted in $Xm in revenue growth" What did you, specifically, do? Did you lead a team of problem-solvers, did you glue together someone else's black-box solutions, did you personally invent something radically new? I've seen people across that entire spectrum make statements such as this, and they are best suited for very very different positions. This is absolutely a great thing to chat about during the background and past experience part of the live interview, but if I'm hiring for a hands-on position, I'd still like to see how you solve problems.