[iba99]

In our experience building any form of meritocracy in recruiting, was excruciatingly difficult due to

1) inherent subconscious bias on the part of the recruiting team 2) pedigree bias - employers only wanting to view candidates that were from certain ivy league institutions

We tried long and hard, for a good 18 months, and it became an arduous battle fraught with the possibility of having to make unethical decisions in the structure of our algorithms. Our whole thesis was to create a system that recommended candidates based on their github repos. Pretty sure someone will solve this problem, but in our experience, it felt like a losing battle since recruiters wanted access to certain types of candidates and were continuing to reject candidates that were surfaced, with non-traditional backgrounds.

This was 2015, I think someone will solve this problem with time. The experience did teach us a thing or two about git commits, PRs and the overall experience of productivity through git based systems.