Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub

Re:Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub by daken on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:43AM (#7523145)

I work in the gaming industry, and recently have been spending a lot of time between reviewing resumes and going through Github code. What I did notice is: - The best profiles I've seen were not Github publishers - Doing a dev-test prior to interview is a better sorting - I believe open-source contribution is a state of mind and not of performance

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Re:Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub by fraserm on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:53PM (#7524652)

Has any Github code or practices put you off interviewing someone so far? What kind of dev test do you do? Question and answer or give them a spec to implement?

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Re:Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub by daken on Monday April 07, 2014 @02:35PM (#7548363)

I give them a dev test (Node JS) with their choice of database to create a small service (front end and back end).

Deliverable is code + db scheme + additionnal questions (mostly how they would improve if they had time, choice on tech etc.)

We also have in interview "do this function for me" to see how they think

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