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Re:I have no side code projects to show you by vacri on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:16PM (#15554350)
One company I work for rejected a candidate based on Github - he'd cloned some repos and stamped his name on it, and claimed they were his. The hiring tech smelled something fishy, and the candidate said that he worked with these various other repos on the backend. Hiring tech reached out to the owners of several repos, and none of them had heard of the candidate before.

Github was used in this hiring process to reveal a fraud - a different 'success' story to others commenting here, but it definitely birthed 'a meaningful question' or two.

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Re:I have no side code projects to show you by joshribakoff on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:22PM (#15555878)
Likewise I've deleted resumes because they claimed to have coded a website when it's clear they simply installed out of the box software. They didn't explicitly lie and say they coded it from scratch, but I felt like they were implying that

Another time I rejected due to side work was a candidate claimed to have written the "worlds fastest framework". Even if it was fast it's possible there's something out there faster, so it showed lack of touch with reality, ego, and lack of self awareness. Note I gave the candidate the chance to substantiate their claims and was met with profanity

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Re:I have no side code projects to show you by meesterdude on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:38AM (#15556391)
> so it showed lack of touch with reality, ego, and lack of self awareness.

feel like they'll fit right in with any number of startups out there! But good for you on calling them on it.

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