Google should hire people like this.
Wouldn't it be awesome if developer talent was judged on the impact of one's open source projects / contributions versus leetcode competency?
Yeah, I know - it'll never happen.
Wouldn't it be awesome if developer talent was judged on the impact of one's open source projects / contributions versus leetcode competency?
Yeah, I know - it'll never happen.
Impact of one open source project measure slightly more than developer talent. It is a combination of a lot of skills, development skill just one among other like marketing, business sense, ability to make video, ... Extreme example would be Zuckerberg: is he the best developer in the world and wouldn't you waste a bit his potential if you hired him as a PHP dev?
And in any case, impact is always going to be a star system. You are going to have a tiny percentage of developers (like a few thousands in the world) that have impact and all the other that have 0. You are back to square one at trying to find a way to differentiate between a loser that can code and another loser that cannot.
The problem is that developers like this are very very rare. They are superstars who can code and build communities.
It doesn't happen because there aren't enough candidates.