This is really cool! The opposition of the AI hype, in this particular market, is something I strongly approve of. I guess most of us on HN have dealt with the unpleasant landscape of IT recruiting at some point, and hearing that such new approaches are being tried is a breath of fresh air.
What is gold for me is the business model that doesn't charge end-users, although I can imagine this might become problematic when the pendulum of the IT field's supply and demand for experience swings back.
I also like that the form doesn't ask for a PDF resume, meaning no more marketing and social engineering work for the ever-decreasing attention span of recruiters and ever-increasing automation in resume screenings. Further kudos for the straightforward interface and main form of the website.
Question though: how do you plan to combat spam applications? It doesn't seem that difficult to be _completely_ dishonest in one's application, which granted, will be detected in later screenings, but will probably shadow honest profiles.
Feature proposal: integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats (think Codeforces, LeetCode, HackTheBox, etc).
Preventing fake profiles is indeed challenging. We manually review every profile to ensure they are legitimate. We also offer everyone who signs up the opportunity to participate in a quick, optional interview (10-15 minutes). This allows us to refine the profile data with the individual and add a summary. We also use this to mark profiles as "verified," which ultimately makes them rank significantly higher. However, that approach is far from perfect. We need to add proper verification, but I’d hate to have something like LinkedIn, scanning your ID and all. Maybe we could integrate with an IdP that performs this check in a privacy-friendly way.
> integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats
That's an awesome idea. The tricky part is making sure candidates truly own these accounts.
> The tricky part is making sure candidates truly own these accounts.
Not sure about LeetCode and HackTheBox, but Codeforces' email account is public if I'm not mistaken. It also has an inbox feature, so you can perform some sort of email-like verification.
Even if lithium-ion battery-powered cars were as safe as gasoline powered ones, I can imagine the significant weight of electric cars is a major issue still.
I can't imagine it makes absolutely any difference to a car ferry. And also it's not like all EVs weigh more than ICE cars - we have an EV that weighs 1200kg and a normal ICE car that weighs 2200kg - why is the first one forbidden but the other one isn't?
Norwegian coastal ferries transport just a few dozen cars, alongside 600+ passengers in coastal mode, with 1100 tonnes DWT. The car weight is not really material. If it was, they'd put a weight limit on the service not a nature limit.
What is wrong with the Red Hat ecosystem, as long as we stick to the open source part of it? Red Hat's ecosystem has got some really neat pieces of software, such as Podman, Cockpit, virt-manager, Ansible, and more.
None of those pieces are tied to the Red Hat distros, and Red Hat being involved seems to me to be the fundamental issue. They're ever altering the deal they have with their community. Why not join a community that's constituted in a way where no single commercial party can effectively control everything?
If you google `PlantUML Gitlab` you should find some blog posts and docs, but if you are don't fancy reading this, try pasting this into a Gitlab Issue body
```plantuml
Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request
Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response
Alice -> Bob: Another authentication Request
Alice <-- Bob: Another authentication Response
```
Innopolis, Russia, is such a community. It's a small city built around a university and tech complex. The population is around 3,000 or something and the nature is exquisite.
What is gold for me is the business model that doesn't charge end-users, although I can imagine this might become problematic when the pendulum of the IT field's supply and demand for experience swings back.
I also like that the form doesn't ask for a PDF resume, meaning no more marketing and social engineering work for the ever-decreasing attention span of recruiters and ever-increasing automation in resume screenings. Further kudos for the straightforward interface and main form of the website.
Question though: how do you plan to combat spam applications? It doesn't seem that difficult to be _completely_ dishonest in one's application, which granted, will be detected in later screenings, but will probably shadow honest profiles.
Feature proposal: integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats (think Codeforces, LeetCode, HackTheBox, etc).
I hope this takes off well!