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Obviously a terrific idea for filtering out the riffraf:

«We love your initiative, Linus Torvalds…» … but you need to improve.

yeah, It's not clear to me what their criteria could possibly be. Their own employees seemed to have scored decently well, while heavy weights did terrible.

I didn't even make their first tier at < 10k

As you said, even heavy weights did terrible: http://imgur.com/fgvlQ

Maybe it's a random number generator. I got 18k, and I barely know anything about the technologies listed at the bottom of the page.

I can't tell you the exact algorithm, but as we are searching for an intern to work together with us - we are definitely weighing some things higher than others.

And sadly, that score will keep some people from applying for a job/internship they would be qualified for.

If you don't use github actively, everyone is free to get in touch via jobs@divio.ch - in that case, attach something else to show you are qualified :)

The way they present it makes it seem that it is only the github they are interested. The headline states: "Find out if you are made for this position or not!" and then I get a message: "We love your initiative...…» … but you need to improve." To me, it says, 'hey, I'm not good enough for this position so I'll move on'. Especially considering this is targeted at people with no experience.

I can't count how many times I've seen posts on www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions asking about being ready for a job after graduating or saying they feel like a fraud. If somebody did have imposter syndrome and saw that, it would most likely re-affirm their feelings. Especially after seeing the scores of others on the leader board.

Yea, I use google code and sourceforge. Guess that means I'm unqualified. Not that I'd want the internship. I have been a programmer for 10 years and love my current job.

I like this idea a lot, but you're right. There needs to be a clear distinction made along the lines of, "this is not scientific and if you are interested we will give you a chance regardless of score."

But this is of course at the discretion of Divio.

They seem to favor python users.

Which is what they seem to be hiring. That's all well and good, but it would have been better to be clear on the criteria so that people understood their score better.

What I would love to see is something that gives you an overall sense of your contributions regardless of language. Pull requests made/accepted, total projects contributed to, number of different languages for code checked in etc.

I like the "blablabla" description :D

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