Re:Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark
by ErrantX on Thursday December 10, 2009 @03:21PM
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There are 2 points it would worry me on; firstly SO score is a poor test of how good a programmer you are. I have a reasonable score here: but I'm not really an entrepreneur and compared to some I'm only an adequate hacker :) but I am active and I usually hold an opinion about everything.
Secondly it would set alarm bells: why are they so excited about their SO score? Is it intended to impress me so that I skim over the rest? (it's not the only flag I've noticed in interviews; there are lots of similar ones, you pick them up). [it'd also worry me that they haven't figured out it's not a great metric]
So what I am saying is: having a good SO score is definitely something great to mention to me. But only in passing or I would get suspicious :)
(on the other hand if I were hiring, say, an API community manager then it's an awesome metric! :) so I guess it depends)
Re:Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark
by sshumaker on Friday December 11, 2009 @01:45AM
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This reminds me of a time I interviewed a well-known blogger for a programming position - and his resume was filled with tons of mentions to citations his blog had received - and very little work experience. The interview, as you might expect, was awful.
You have stated this twice, but the reason why this should invoke worry seems to have been left as an exercise to the reader. Perhaps there is some sort of underlying assumption you make about someone pimping their SO score that I am not making?
Help me understand why this should worry me. There are plenty of good questions and good discussion that I've seen on SO, and the reputation people have earned has seem more often deserved than not. I don't think a good SO reputation deserving quite the heated bandwagon snarking this article produced.