[booleandilemma]

This is why I don’t share my GitHub profile during the hiring process. Code is just too easy to criticize.

Write a 1 liner? Too terse and hard to understand.

Use multiple lines? Too verbose.

I don’t want to give the people who are going to be deciding my future a target to pick on. It only takes one guy to feel insecure about hiring me to say something like “he over abstracts his code”.

The only things I share are the finished products, it keeps the nitpickers quiet.

[runawaybottle]

I will respond to the other comment in a second, but the things you are concerned with are not what I am advocating. The nit picky stuff doesn’t expose one’s mental model. It exposes some modicum of taste.

What I’m advocating is to probe how people structure the problem. There is a noticeable percentage of people that manage to have technical competence but map problems in a complicated way.