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Comment by davidweatherall | Hacker News Reader

I am eagerly awaiting a YC startup that automates the coding interview from the candidate's side.

We have something for this in our roadmap.

Currently: candidate does a Litebulb interview, gets a report, that report can be shared with whoever they like, hopefully speeding up interviews at other companies.

Next up: candidate does a Litebulb interview, gets a list of actively hiring companies that use that stack and would like the candidate to be inserted mid-way into the interviewing funnel.

Empowering workers is not a selling point for the companies that want to use a service like this.

Why not? Hiring is a two-way contract, if they benefit workers, they will have more and more competent ones to fill their positions with.

And if they mage to get a way to find underrated workers, they will make both sides extremely happy.

Not a bad idea - you could get "vetted" by the company doing the interview and then companies that want to hire you could just search by type.

So kind of LinkedIn badges but with actual meaning :-D

That’s how Triplebyte use to operate. It didn’t work out.

I think it did work out for them. Just not to the extent to justify the $100 million of VC money they took.

Do you know why it didn't work out? I'm curious.

I believe this already exists. However, my impression is that while they may ask for your github, no potential employer ever actually checks it.

Next level: a tool that rates quality and innovation in your github.

I've thought about this as well, the biggest problem here is that I have Github repos from 7 years ago with very, very, poor code quality, and also just a bunch of incomplete test repos. I wouldn't want that to lower the perception of my current skillset.

If I could select which repos to include, that could be very interesting. Also interesting additions: open source contribution analyzer, Stack Overflow Q&A quality analyzer.

Next level: maintaining two separate github repos. One for the dystopian automated interviews and one for you.

Count the number of stars?

Someone could get a ton of stars through bots or someone could have an incredible project with a dozen stars.

Stars should be counted but can't be the only measure.

That's what I thought this was, until I saw the "YC W22" mark.

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