Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark

Re:Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark by ErrantX on Thursday December 10, 2009 @03:21PM (#988440)

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)

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Re:Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark by sshumaker on Friday December 11, 2009 @01:45AM (#989307)

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.

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