Perhaps the largest handicap in developer hiring is bias as evident by the stark contrast in response to these two comments that convey identical sentiments about the same subject with slightly different language and yet receive opposite response.
A company is a absolutely not objective in their candidate selection if developers are the deciding factor in the hiring of other developers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821318
I post a similar comment in this thread and it gets downvoted to user flagged:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831474
Perhaps the largest handicap in developer hiring is bias as evident by the stark contrast in response to these two comments that convey identical sentiments about the same subject with slightly different language and yet receive opposite response.
A company is a absolutely not objective in their candidate selection if developers are the deciding factor in the hiring of other developers.