Ask HN: What third-party sites are good/bad indicators for hiring?

3 points by teapot01 9y ago ↗ HN

I've seen plenty of CVs include profiles for some or all of: - Github - StackOverflow - HackerRank - HackerNews - Personal Blogs (medium etc.)

When hring how do you take into account any/all of the above and what weighting would you give to them?

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exolymph 9y ago ↗

It depends on the role you're hiring for, but in general I would weight the content of the profile higher than the website it's on. For example, a history of high-quality Hacker News comments would be more compelling than a lackluster GitHub account.

teapot01 9y ago ↗

Agreed - Obviously account quality is the key factor. I have heard in recent times that HackerRank accounts can be easily improved implying a high level of skill however a top GitHub account is probably less likely to faked.

tn13 9y ago ↗

Not a good idea. What I have seen is young inexperienced people create lot more github, stackoverflow junk.

Do not mistake me there are badass developers too but you will figure them out just by resume too.