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0 pointsrickosborne3y ago0 comments

> Surely this will filter out ~50% of people who are good but don’t have any public code?

Not OP, but I follow a similar process when I have to do coding interviews. I work around the "no public code" problem easily: "great, then pick an open source library you use regularly and let's go through and look at some of the things you do with it, what you like about the API design, and some things you stumble over or wish were better".

I've had candidates go through everything from jQuery to D3 to Spring to just parts of the Java SDK.

Also, in my experience, the percentage of people who have _zero_ public code is small. Maybe 10%. Certainly not half.

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leaflets23y ago

> pick an open source library you use regularly and let's go through and look at some of the things you do with it, what you like about the API design ...

People who have plenty of time to prepare, eg carefully study and think about that API before the interview, will tend to do better in the interviews.

Although they aren't necessarily better at coding.

Meaning, you're slightly favoring people with lots of spare time. Not saying that's a good or bad thing, just maybe something to be aware about.

Also, what open source project they happen to choose, will matter I would think. That's a bit like tossing a coin as part of the process

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