> You obviously take hiring seriously. I bet you have many sold folks at your place. Very much. It's easy to get burned. We're young so we just have one employ

> You obviously take hiring seriously. I bet you have many sold folks at your place. Very much. It's easy to get burned. We're young so we just have one employee, but we paid him 8 hours work to do a small project, because we wanted to see what he could do in 8 hours. It was great so we hired him. > Often time that's something for my self, an open source contribution or refactoring a side project to make it "usable". I don't find this to be terribly valuable, personally. Its great to see that you can pick up a strange project and quickly make a valuable contribution, but it says very little about whether you're a good coder. > if you ever want to be in the position of choosing who you work for this is needed I disagree. To do this you need to be a great coder/designer, and there are many ways to demonstrate this. Lots of open source is a good way, but a small amount of open source, or just a couple of side projects you worked alone on, isn't a great way, IMO.