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My company is making a business of identifying great developers (gild.com). It is a notoriously difficult task, even with the wealth of information developers t
by mbailey 14y ago
My company is making a business of identifying great developers (gild.com). It is a notoriously difficult task, even with the wealth of information developers tend to make public about themselves.
- sanswork 14y agoIs there any way to view your own profile on gild?
- mbailey 14y agoEventually we're planning to do just that.
- spitfire 14y ago"automated scoring" and "social network activity". That sounds like a fantastic way to find scads of mediocre developers. Development isn't about language, it's about comprehension.
- mbailey 14y agoWe are making assessments of code made public, and combining it with how active people are in places like stackexchange. You can argue that code evaluated from github is not necessarily indicative of a good developer, but it's a good place to start rather than shotgun LinkedIn spam from recruiters.
- thornelius 14y agoi find it ironic that your sign up page, for gild.com, doesn't work...
- mbailey 14y agoNot sure why hubspot is having issues, I'll have to talk to the marketing guys who maintain the hubspot pages... Currently we don't let people claim their profiles, but will in the future. "login" is really just for customers at this point.
- amcintyre 14y ago...even with the wealth of information developers tend to make public about themselves. I guess I'm gonna be a negative Nancy here, but I know some very good developers that don't make anything about themselves public. I expect some of the very best are completely invisible on the internet, at least by their real name, because they're too busy working on things their employers would rather keep as trade secrets.
- benlakey 14y agoI suspect you're right, though I'd rather they share the non trade secret advice that they have in a more public fashion, such as a blog or stackoverflow.
- mbailey 14y agoYeah, this is what we're aiming at, making how developers interact with the community as part of our scoring metrics.
- mbailey 14y agoFor sure, we can only evaluate what we can get access to. We're trying to scour as many sources as possible, but if you're exceedingly quiet, you wouldn't be in our system.