These guys trying to hook up Github users seriously messed their algorithms...
I get offers for Web dev and Ruby shit whereas 99% of my OSS contributions are C and C++.
If even Google HR team is not capable of just simply take a look at a Github user contributions, I don't know how you should trust these new recruitment techniques.
> Rockstar is one amazing library, which will make you a Rockstar Programmer in just 2 minutes. In last decade, people learned C++ in 21 days. But these days, it has come down to just 10 minutes. But, I wanted to do better.
Curious about the 10 minutes thing, I followed the link through to Sam's Teach Yourself C++ In 10 Minutes on Amazon.
Another example of websites leaking private information about their users. The explanation: what readers of Teach Yourself C++ in 10 minutes do with the other 50 minutes. ;)
I'm surprised this wasn't a thing sooner. I found out I could modify my github commit calender thing like over a year ago. Awaiting for mainstream abuse (hilarity) to kick in now thanks to this! :)
This suggests that the "big 4" is more a concept then an actual definition.
On the other hand, further search gives another possibility. The big 4 can refer to the audit firms of Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_%28audit_firms%29 ). It was "Big Eight", then "Big Six" and "Big Five", before ending up with 4. At http://www.narrowingthegaap.com/recruiting/how-to-get-hired-... you see "How To Get Hired By the Big 4: The Hiring Process (Part 1)" which starts "The Big 4 hire only the best and the brightest. This is only a partial truth at best. I know this because I have met some really dumb people working for the Big 4. So no, to get hired by a Big 4 you don’t need to have a 4.0 GPA with a double major in ..".
So does the github project mean the audit companies, or the tech companies? I think the tech companies are more likely to offer $200K jobs for programmers, but have little knowledge of the audit world.
I'll also hypothesize that the term "big 4" came from the audit world and was reused in the tech world by analogy.
The only place I hear "big 4" in regards to tech is Reddit's cscareerquestions. It really doesn't mean anything more than "top companies that are famous"—any combination of Google, Facebook. Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple will do.
I recently noticed in Europe references to these "digital big 4" as the GAFA, i.e. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon. Some also designate them as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse/Internet. I'm still looking for the guy who coined the term though...
> The four big boys Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (or GAFA; ok, not quite Silicon Valley for Amazon which is based in Seattle, but you know what I mean) are all clearly in the marketing business.
> How will the next few years play out for GAFA? Will they go the way of CompuServe and Prodigy? In five years will we have a new acronym to replace GAFA, which replaced 2006’s GYM?
I similarly once used Git to evidence cheating [1] at a corporate hackaton. It was none other than the CEO team who committed half the files before the kick off.
[1] I didn't phrase it like that at the time, because it could be accepted that desgin work isn't hacking. Most of the wiring with the real APIs happened during the night of the hackaton. Besides, ultra-preparing plans/assets for a corporate hackaton in advance is just showing high motivation. And commits at 6am from a CEO still hold me in respect 4 years later.
I particularly like that he faked the tweet from Life at Google (tried to find it, couldn't), that gave me a good chuckle. I enjoyed the Readme overall, thought that it had a good tone to it. Not too sarcastic but not too serious. Just enough to make me get it's just a silly fun thing he did in some free time.
Yup, it was created in very short time. I use another library GitPython in this and I spent more time with that. GitPython did not have option to make a commit with custom dates, which is very crucial for this project [0]. So I spent time reading it's code and sent a PR which exactly does that [1].
On a more serious note, people should start using Python 3, unless you really depend on a library that's not supported in 3.X or needs to support 2.X (but it's usually possible to target both versions)
Like with power-leveling, it wouldn't surprise me if there's programmers that throw decent code together [for a price] to help crappier programmers get jobs. It would be less noticeable than Rockstar lib at least until the interview. Has anyone seen this kind of thing happening?
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 111 ms ] threadAs usual:
Step 1: metric is used to indicate performance
Step 2: developer finds a way to hack the metric
Step 3: developer profit
Step 4: metric now considered unusable
LOCs, #of issues fixed, ... all in the same bag.
If even Google HR team is not capable of just simply take a look at a Github user contributions, I don't know how you should trust these new recruitment techniques.
https://twitter.com/pablormier/status/575779002096435200
Curious about the 10 minutes thing, I followed the link through to Sam's Teach Yourself C++ In 10 Minutes on Amazon.
Uhhh... Can't explain this though: https://i.imgur.com/dVndZzz.png
https://keep.google.com
https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
Edit: Looks like it's just hundreds of hello world commits. I was expecting unique code for each commit! :)
Good idea! I will implement this. As of now it makes commits with a random string (uuid.uuid1) and only final commit contains the Hello World in C++.
Laughed at this one.
also, as a rockstar programmer, I do things right way ;)
Though now I feel my 140 day streak is wildly inadequate. :(
I hadn't heard of "big 4" before. I thought it might refer to tech companies, like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. but couldn't figure out which 4. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-sanity-check/schmidt-c... says "Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook", are the big 4 category of 'platform companies' while http://battellemedia.com/archives/2011/12/the-internet-big-f... uses the phrase the big 5, which also includes Microsoft. Then again, the speaker in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZCUhxNCv8 comments about working at the "Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft - sometimes called the Big 4".
This suggests that the "big 4" is more a concept then an actual definition.
On the other hand, further search gives another possibility. The big 4 can refer to the audit firms of Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_%28audit_firms%29 ). It was "Big Eight", then "Big Six" and "Big Five", before ending up with 4. At http://www.narrowingthegaap.com/recruiting/how-to-get-hired-... you see "How To Get Hired By the Big 4: The Hiring Process (Part 1)" which starts "The Big 4 hire only the best and the brightest. This is only a partial truth at best. I know this because I have met some really dumb people working for the Big 4. So no, to get hired by a Big 4 you don’t need to have a 4.0 GPA with a double major in ..".
So does the github project mean the audit companies, or the tech companies? I think the tech companies are more likely to offer $200K jobs for programmers, but have little knowledge of the audit world.
I'll also hypothesize that the term "big 4" came from the audit world and was reused in the tech world by analogy.
Depending where you look it's the Big 5 or Big 4 and will be some of Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft.
IMO they should just call it "top companies".
> The four big boys Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (or GAFA; ok, not quite Silicon Valley for Amazon which is based in Seattle, but you know what I mean) are all clearly in the marketing business.
From January 11, 2012, Ken Doctor, http://www.outsellinc.com/b2b/products/1044-getting-it-right... :
> How will the next few years play out for GAFA? Will they go the way of CompuServe and Prodigy? In five years will we have a new acronym to replace GAFA, which replaced 2006’s GYM?
GYM in turn is attested to at least 2005 , https://gigaom.com/2005/11/11/can-you-stay-gym-free/ .
Hilarious.
[1] I didn't phrase it like that at the time, because it could be accepted that desgin work isn't hacking. Most of the wiring with the real APIs happened during the night of the hackaton. Besides, ultra-preparing plans/assets for a corporate hackaton in advance is just showing high motivation. And commits at 6am from a CEO still hold me in respect 4 years later.
[0] - https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar/blob/master/RockStar/__...
[1] - https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pull/317
On a more serious note, people should start using Python 3, unless you really depend on a library that's not supported in 3.X or needs to support 2.X (but it's usually possible to target both versions)