Leetcode is incredibly easy (just time-consuming) to game, yet it's colloquially regarded as the gold standard for interviewing. I know someone who plays that

Leetcode is incredibly easy (just time-consuming) to game, yet it's colloquially regarded as the gold standard for interviewing. I know someone who plays that GitHub profile game where they, at first glance, appear to be a contributor to ~20 teams' projects. I can tell you inside of a minute though, that his profile is bullshit. I think it's a great idea to ask the candidate about their public GitHub projects (I also think it's a great idea to ask candidates about their past jobs and make the interview as much like a two-way conversation as possible). What if there were a system where, for each applicant, it were to A) automatically verify the dates of employment with past employers (perfect for a call center in the third world), B) web scrape any linked SO/GitHub/Medium profiles and evaluate "novelty"/legitimacy, and C) look for certifications (ideally there's a central authority like what doctors and lawyers have - Merit[0] is a startup building something like this)? Surely if something like TripleByte can mint money (at least for a time) when they're MANUALLY vetting candidates, there's a market for an automated/semi-automated system of vetting that still delivers a lot of value by, instead of finding the wheat in the chaff, simply removing all the straw from the chaff and leaving the wheat-finding to individual companies (who tended to do that anyway, even with TripleByte). [0]https://www.merits.com/ https://www.merits.com/