[crabasa]

Disclaimer: I am building a startup in this problem space.

Does anyone think that social proof could work here? If 15 peers endorse Sally for React Native and those 15 people are likewise found to be credible, could such a network effect be more valuable than a coding test?

[duncanawoods]

Obtaining endorsements is a different skill from RN. Those on linkedin with all the endorsements are not the ones doing the work but the social operators that value networks and symbols more.

[crabasa]

I 100% agree about LinkedIn endorsements. But those seem pushed on users without their consent in order to drive engagement metrics. I often get garbage endorsements for vague skills like "mobile development".

But what if you could self-identity your skills (Erlang, Vue.js, etc) and there was a low friction way for your peers to +1 those skills?

[duncanawoods]

Utterly meaningless to me as an employer. It measures how big the group of friends is that decide to +1 each other.

[taurath]

Late reply, but I think it should be exceedingly valuable, but at the highest quality you'll get a lot of noise. There are a lot of engineering organizations that put out bad code.

I'd consider recommendations from CTOs, former Senior or Principle engineers to be the #1 indication that the person can do what they say they can do. Verify a bit more, but honestly the college level micro-optimization whiteboard-only BS questions are mainly only useful for checking new grads.