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Only 20% of all applicants get in, as determined by a filtering process done through manual review in combination with algorithms that rank the applicants based
by typicalrunt 15y ago
Only 20% of all applicants get in, as determined by a filtering process done through manual review in combination with algorithms that rank the applicants based on open source contributions.
Applicants are ranked based on their open source contributions? Jeez, I'd never get in. All of my clients require me to work on closed source code, and I've worked on the smallest of the small projects, to large $700 million dollar projects.
I realize that choosing the right candidate for a project can lead someone to a certain set of paranoia, but isn't there more we can use to rank people other than their open source contributions?
- whather 15y agoOpen source contributions is one of many things we look at to decide acceptance. You don't need to have any open source contributions but it does help us gauge you as a developer. It mostly comes down to what you've built in the past (open source or not).
- typicalrunt 15y agoThank you for following up. What other criteria do you judge candidates by? Do you only look at publicly accessible work? A lot of work that I do is in back-end services...stuff that the public never sees. That has always made it difficult to show in a portfolio.
- whather 15y agoYeah, currently we look at publicly accessible work a developer has done. Agreed that front-end and design heavy work shows much better in a portfolio (and is usually an easier sell for the project owner) but we're working on ways to bubble back-end work to the top so it shows nicely. We get a number of back-end only type projects come through, so definitely still request an invite.