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Have tried to hire open source developers. Most of them are very busy and expensive. But I still ask prospective hires to see their GitHub accounts. If they don

Have tried to hire open source developers. Most of them are very busy and expensive. But I still ask prospective hires to see their GitHub accounts. If they don't provide a link, they are automatically disqualified.

spitfire 17y ago
And what if we don't have a github account? It's like disqualifying a candidate because they like the wrong sports team, or make a vodka rather than gin martini. Pure idiocy. Not to mention just because they haven't written open source in the past doesn't preclude quality work. I'd hire someone who does DO-178B over an average open source developer any day.
- quellhorst 17y ago
  The point wasn't the GitHub account, although most developers I know in the Ruby on Rails land have one and put all their open source code there. Since Rails is so GitHub centric, you can see if they forked any rails apps, what they are watching, etc. If they had stuff on their own repositories or other sites like RubyForge, Google Code, etc. that is fine. When someone does open source code it shows that they are passionate about programming and that they are not doing it just for a paycheck.
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rwolf 17y ago
Reminds me or a story I read a few weeks back: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-2.. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-2.... Asking for profile information as part of an interview process is not popular around here; I'd suggest scrubbing your earlier posts in case a future employee decides to dig through _your_ trash.
- quellhorst 17y ago
  A GitHub profile is not the same as a Myspace or Facebook account. Maybe if you had an account there you would understand.
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  - rwolf 17y ago
    While Github differs from the social networking sites mentioned above, your employees must be allowed to keep their after-hours, legal programming private. Requiring the submission of internet profiles is intrusive.

spitfire 17y ago

And what if we don't have a github account? It's like disqualifying a candidate because they like the wrong sports team, or make a vodka rather than gin martini. Pure idiocy. Not to mention just because they haven't written open source in the past doesn't preclude quality work. I'd hire someone who does DO-178B over an average open source developer any day.

quellhorst 17y ago
The point wasn't the GitHub account, although most developers I know in the Ruby on Rails land have one and put all their open source code there. Since Rails is so GitHub centric, you can see if they forked any rails apps, what they are watching, etc. If they had stuff on their own repositories or other sites like RubyForge, Google Code, etc. that is fine. When someone does open source code it shows that they are passionate about programming and that they are not doing it just for a paycheck.
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rwolf 17y ago

Reminds me or a story I read a few weeks back: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-2.. http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-2.... Asking for profile information as part of an interview process is not popular around here; I'd suggest scrubbing your earlier posts in case a future employee decides to dig through _your_ trash.

quellhorst 17y ago
A GitHub profile is not the same as a Myspace or Facebook account. Maybe if you had an account there you would understand.
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- rwolf 17y ago
  While Github differs from the social networking sites mentioned above, your employees must be allowed to keep their after-hours, legal programming private. Requiring the submission of internet profiles is intrusive.