"If you want to find out whether someone’s worth hiring as a software engineer, their code is of very limited value compared to talking to them, discussing design and architecture, previous engineering constraints they’ve faced, and what they’re like at solving problems"
I have a hard time thinking of a better way to see how good someone is at all of those those thing than to look at code they've written in the past.
Also, the title of the article is "Why GitHub is not your CV" yet all it talks about is how it can't replace an interview. Which I don't think many people advocate.
I have a hard time thinking of a better way to see how good someone is at all of those those thing than to look at code they've written in the past.
Also, the title of the article is "Why GitHub is not your CV" yet all it talks about is how it can't replace an interview. Which I don't think many people advocate.