Re:Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub ...
by EnderMB on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:56AM
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It's also worth noting that even good developers might not understand GitHub.
I worked with a guy (around 8-10 years experience, and a good senior dev/technical architect) who spoke to me about someone he was interviewing for a mid-level role. He told me that his GitHub profile was great, and that he had a ton of great code and specs that he had written. In fact, he had forked most of this great code, and the only code that was his was a few tutorials from some books he had read to try and learn C# a year or two ago.
He wasn't a bad developer by any means. He didn't get the job because we couldn't get the budget to land another dev. However, there's a big difference in perception between a good developer on merit, and someone that has written some commonly used tools.
I worked with a guy (around 8-10 years experience, and a good senior dev/technical architect) who spoke to me about someone he was interviewing for a mid-level role. He told me that his GitHub profile was great, and that he had a ton of great code and specs that he had written. In fact, he had forked most of this great code, and the only code that was his was a few tutorials from some books he had read to try and learn C# a year or two ago.
He wasn't a bad developer by any means. He didn't get the job because we couldn't get the budget to land another dev. However, there's a big difference in perception between a good developer on merit, and someone that has written some commonly used tools.