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I think technical interviews will be obsolete in the future, your technical competence will be evaluated with GitHub or other public projects. So the interviews will be only about culture fit. I don't know if I will ever be in a position to hire anyone or even if I'll ever work as a programmer, but this is how I would interview. Send me a link to your GitHub, if I like what I see, I want to know if we would get along well, if we do your hired.

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You see this a lot in these kinds of discussions, but I can guarantee you will overlook a lot (most?) of excellent developers as many can't open source code (due to employment contract) or just don't really want to be coding 24/7 when their jobs fulfil and challenge them already and they have family/friends/sports/whatever to do outside work.

These seems to be a trend from younger developers from what I've seen, which assume every developer will have a GitHub account to show (like young non-developers nowadays can phantom people that don't use facebook or don't have a smartphone ;)

You're effectively eliminating 99% of your potential candidates then, as most developers do not do public open source work, including many talented ones. I can't imagine any sane company doing this, yet there are some that do indeed.

And in Anglo Saxon legal system code you do at work belongs to your employer and so possibly does anything related to your job you do out of work.

I would be breaking my contact with my employer if at an interview I showed you for example the Ml code I wrote to optimise our clients Ad words Campaigns.

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