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My ex-employer used Github stars in their job description and during recruitement pitches. They regularly encouraged employees to go and star the firm's repos i
by penguin_booze 4y ago
My ex-employer used Github stars in their job description and during recruitement pitches. They regularly encouraged employees to go and star the firm's repos in Github. In all-hands meetings, the Github stars were one of the items they reported: "we've surpassed X in Github stars" (applause).
(The firm X, however, is a more well-known name than my ex-employer was).
A while ago, I listened to a Freakonomics episode where it was discussed that businesses use proxies to both boost their image and to cover up their incompetency. The example was that a lot of businesses chose fancy names starting with A (like, AAA plumbers), so that they get listed first in business directories. These firms were later proven to be very incompetent and/or even fraudulent.
The relevant paper, also cited in the episode, was "A Business by Any Other Name": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1667550 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1667550.
- goodoldneon 4y agoThey were incompetent because they didn’t have enough As. I exclusively use AAAAAAAAAAAA Plumbers
- photochemsyn 4y agoApparently seven is the sweet spot for visual recognition at a glance, so I'd go with AAAAAAA Plumbers instead.
- willcipriano 4y agoAaaaaah real plumbers
- moneywoes 4y agoPodcast episode name please
- lobocinza 4y agoThe tech version of this is SaaS companies advertising on Reddit.
- karakanb 4y agodo you mind elaborating on this? I am using Reddit to advertise some of my projects because it seems like a relevant crowd to advertise to, but I am curious to hear how it would be perceived.
- lobocinza 4y agoSure. I don't think I can generalize my PoV but I see with distrust anything that is advertised because there is so much noise.