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The truth is that I've never had a problem sourcing candidates this way for the past decade+. There are tens of millions of developers on GitHub. You will find
by wootland 4y ago
The truth is that I've never had a problem sourcing candidates this way for the past decade+. There are tens of millions of developers on GitHub. You will find people who are very accomplished in the exact area you need, and it's easy to track them down by navigating through the projects.
Extra bonus points for hiring the maintainers of libraries/software you're actually using.
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- olliej 4y agoYou will also exclude every person who works at a job that doesn’t allow that, and people who aren’t coding on weekends. The latter likely disproportionately impacts people with children, so that’s great as well.
- wootland 4y agoI also hire like this with referrals from current (and past) team members. This helps provide an on-ramp for people with less of a public persona. If someone I've worked with in the past says "you should hire X, I worked with them at my last co and they're an amazing developer", I'll hire X. X tends to be excellent and you have a great chance of landing them with a hot referral.