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Open source GitHub issues as assignments for hiring Tech guys
Hi community,
I want to validate an idea of HR Tech startup:
## How it works?
1. Company: provide vacancy description
2. We: provide for candidates real opensource repos & tickets from Github that match company tech requirements
3. Candidates: contribute to the repo & close the ticket
4. Company: get these candidates’ profiles
## What solves?
1. Company:
1. Increase candidates quality
2. Minimize hiring cost
3. Minimize time spent for hiring
2. Candidates:
1. Get strict and proper guidelines for success
2. Prove your real experience and skills
3. No fake technical boring assessments
4. Bonus: participate in opensource contributions
3. Maintainers:
1. Getting more contributors, stars, PRs for the project
2. Grow the community
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Please leave your comments:
- would you like to take part (would like to try this product or join startup team)?
- pros/cons
- any thoughts are welcome :)
- taylodl 2y agoOnly if the code is covered by a copyleft license such as GPL. I don't want to freely contribute to a code base, especially for a job interview, that somebody else can take and profit from.
- dekulish 2y agoThanks! What if a company pays you for this ticket?
- taylodl 2y agoI could see that being very valuable to a job seeker, especially for someone who's just been laid-off. Provide an opportunity to earn a little cash while demonstrating your skills for an interview. That appears to be win-win!
- dekulish 2y agoYes, for a jobseeker it's like this
- _1_1_1_1_1_1_ 2y ago[dead]
- enceladus06 2y agoI could see this as a win-win situation. GitHub maintainers get an issue closed, hiring managers get candidate assessment, and candidates get paid $ if they close an issue. But as OP is asking, would everyone actually use this? Also have to remember hiring managers time is not free so this tool might save time.
- dekulish 2y agoYes, time saving in hiring process is a big part of thie equation as well as candidates' quality growth. Would everyone use it? - We don't know. Either how popular such a service could become. Maybe an early subscribers list and later and MVP would show us. We only suppose time to market could be better than 15 years ago when Github has only just started or 10 years ago when people and it companies just started to get used to it. Now looks like it a well-know instrument for everybody i.e. good basement to build something on it.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 2y agoThis would require open source projects to allow something like that, I can easily see an influx of low quality PRs with vetting burden put on the OSS community rather than the HR tech startup or the recruitment company.
- dekulish 2y agoYes, from startup and Company employer angle it looks perfect. Communities - yes, the burden will rise, but they will benefit anyway: more commits, more developers involved, more new ideas, more popularity, etc.