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Hi, I'm the co-founder of Sourcing.io, and the engineer who built it. Stoked that we're on HN, and get the chance to respond to the engineering and hacker commu

by maccman 13y ago

Hi, I'm the co-founder of Sourcing.io, and the engineer who built it. Stoked that we're on HN, and get the chance to respond to the engineering and hacker community. Our introduction blog post says a bit more about our mission. http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world Believe it or not, I hate 'spam' recruiting emails as much as the next engineer. This is how I feel about them: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/recruiting-emails http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/recruiting-emails We're not here to increase the spam problem - quite the opposite. We've put a number of safe guards in place against this kind of abuse: * We don't allow big recruitment agencies known for spamming on the system. * Our system is geared around referral based recruiting - finding people already connected to your company. For example, promoting candidates who follow one of your engineers on Twitter. This is the type of recruiting we live for and want to promote. That said, there are definitely some things we should (and will) do. * Allow developers to see, edit and update their own profiles * An instant opt-out button Let me know if there's anything else I can answer.

ameralimanovic 13y ago
I appreciate this idea leveraging data from Twitter and GitHub and truly believe that's the better way to find professional engineers which are associated with your community somehow. What about intelligent algorithms to evaluate and to display engineer skills (points or school grades)?
- maccman 13y ago
  We actually originally started generating a 'score' for engineers, and it's still part of our API. However, we dropped it from the interface since it was confusing a lot of people, and the score tended to reflect how popular an engineer was, rather than how good they were. As you can imagine, figuring out the latter is a very complex problem. For now, we've removed it.
  - ameralimanovic 13y ago
    That's true. It's nearly impossible to evaluate accurately how good an engineer was, but for me personally it seems to be useful to display similar informations to companies. Something like "geek cred" (coderwall.com) or open-source track record, because building many projects is one of the key-factors of experience. Coderwall published that they work with statistical methods like central tendency. https://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-05-the-companies-id-want-to-work-for https://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-05-the-companies-id-want-...

by maccman 13y ago

ameralimanovic 13y ago

I appreciate this idea leveraging data from Twitter and GitHub and truly believe that's the better way to find professional engineers which are associated with your community somehow. What about intelligent algorithms to evaluate and to display engineer skills (points or school grades)?

maccman 13y ago
We actually originally started generating a 'score' for engineers, and it's still part of our API. However, we dropped it from the interface since it was confusing a lot of people, and the score tended to reflect how popular an engineer was, rather than how good they were. As you can imagine, figuring out the latter is a very complex problem. For now, we've removed it.
- ameralimanovic 13y ago
  That's true. It's nearly impossible to evaluate accurately how good an engineer was, but for me personally it seems to be useful to display similar informations to companies. Something like "geek cred" (coderwall.com) or open-source track record, because building many projects is one of the key-factors of experience. Coderwall published that they work with statistical methods like central tendency. https://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-05-the-companies-id-want-to-work-for https://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-05-the-companies-id-want-...