Re:Software Job Matcher – Quickly match your experience to jobs
by sparkslabs on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @06:12AM
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Conflating github projects as being "your experience", is not really sensible really. After all, github is only 8 years old at this point, and many real world projects (ie the day job where your experience lies) can't be in github public repositories. (And for many predate the existance of github)
For a selection of good reasons as to why using github like this is a bad metric take a look at:
(There are lots of good counterpoints to the arguments there in the hackernews discussion of that post here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738952 - but personally I still think it's incredibly dangerous to start assuming that you can really measure experience from github.
After all, do you also include repositories forked, but not worked on? If so, it'd be incredibly easy to game this...
As a toy it seems kinda fun/neat, but as a tool... far less so.
Re:Software Job Matcher – Quickly match your experience to jobs
by peterwallhead on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:41AM
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Developer here: Thanks. It becomes more useful with the more language experience you have. Plus, if the languages you use are less common then it will struggle to return relevant job matches.
For a selection of good reasons as to why using github like this is a bad metric take a look at:
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-c...
(There are lots of good counterpoints to the arguments there in the hackernews discussion of that post here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738952 - but personally I still think it's incredibly dangerous to start assuming that you can really measure experience from github.
After all, do you also include repositories forked, but not worked on? If so, it'd be incredibly easy to game this...
As a toy it seems kinda fun/neat, but as a tool... far less so.