Use GitHub as Your Professional Portfolio

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6 points·attila_domokos··6 comments

We require this for our hiring. Our applicant tool collects GitHub and dozens of other sites (including HN) into one (long) page. I then A/B candidates side by side sans name and picture (props to HBR for that idea). We then vote on candidates, top rank gets a call and trial gig.

How does you system handle people who don't necessarily have large online presences do to other commitments. It seems like if you weed people out largely by what you can find on GitHub and Hacker News, you'd have lots of false negatives.

The submissions are not restricted to just the online profile. We have resume data side by side as well has having their submitted materials (code example, portfolio pics). The top comparison is how candidates answer our application questions,

The system is only practical for technical positions (code/design). We still have to find HR and Sales/Marketing/Advertising the traditional ways (business networking is our preferred)

I'm reading that as though you only call who comes out on top on paper - is that the case? No interview stage where you talk to all applicants in person before you try someone out?

Yes, only the top rank are called. Only the top rank receive a call or webcam based interview.

On the one hand, this makes sense.

On the other hand, my github profile is full of personal projects which I have the luxury of slacking off on if I want to, and I don't want to have to consider how that looks to HR people looking for reasons to filter me into the wastebasket.

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