ONLamp: The Virtual Referral: Mitigating Risk by Hiring Open Source Developers

“The biggest problem with traditional interviewing and
evaluation methods is that they are based on limited information
about a candidate, such as resume, references, and contrived
problem-solving scenarios in interviews. These can be effective
evaluation methods, but they too are costly and time consuming, and
still carry with them a high risk of making a bad hire.

“If, however, you are choosing a candidate from the ever-growing
pool of programmers who contribute to open source projects, you can
get an inside look at a programmer’s work on actual projects with
actual team members by examining the open source projects he
participates in…”

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