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No worries at all :)

> Sorry to be blunt, but chances are they aren't very good, and they are definitely not as good as they think they are.

I don’t know what to tell you.

It’s just so wrong it’s kinda wild how sure you are about this. At least half of the excellent colleagues I worked with in the past 10 years don’t fit your criteria. You’d be lucky to hire any of them.



I agree with you, this cannot be regarded as a healthy approach to hiring and comes off as delusional.


At the same time, it might sort of work, just that since they a bit randomly discard a fraction of the job applicants, the company will end up paying more, for those it hires (supply and demand). But maybe the company doesn't notice (and in the end what does it matter anyway)


I felt exactly the same when I read this. Plenty of people who are very good engineers have nothing in public to show.




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