[Estragon]

  > people with lots of code on github and what looks like
  > lots of accepted pull requests to many projects who still
  > can't seem to reason

How does that happen? Do you think they were lying about their github identities?

[elq]

I can't really explain it. It was a puzzle to all of the interviewers.

The only reasonable hypothesis I have where I assume the candidate was honest is that the quality of the code in his github profile is largely due to help from others.

[rurounijones]

Or that they are bad with on-the-spot-questions-with-short-time-limit-while-every-move-under-scrutiny-by-potential-employer situations ... Which usually only ever happen in interviews.

[Yunk]

The only reason I can do well in one of these interviews is because I recently started writing poor patch code for websites.

In development, who would do design, code and review on only one change in a straight sequence? It is like asking half your brain to shut down and the gods to smite you.