That gets you an interview. Blogs let you know you're a good writer, but that's ... | Hacker News

HN2new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		kenjackson on July 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring ... That gets you an interview. Blogs let you know you're a good writer, but that's about it. Open source contributions can say a lot, but may not. DarkShakira's work, for example, probably darn near gets him a job. 99% of what I see on GitHub probably doesn't.

nostrademons on July 25, 2011 [–]

Though ironically, not a Google+ account. ;-)

(Side note: who's DarkShakira? A search for [darkshakira github] yielded only this comment.)

kenjackson on July 25, 2011 | [–]

Spelled his name wrong:

https://hackernews.hn/user?id=DarkShikari

He's lead dev on x264. Very impressive contributions. I have trouble believing Google would push back much if they oould get him working on WebM.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact