Above all other sites, HN's who's hiring thread is the best way to find devs. Something about the kind of people who read this site is just right.

I've used both HN and various distribution sites, and somehow when you look at where people found us, it's clear HN users seem the best qualified.

It's also kinda interesting that traditional recruiters don't seem to know that HN is a bit of a treasure trove of CVs. At least the financial ones I meet in London are quite surprised I can find someone on some site that only has a hiring thread once a month.

> A follower count [on GitHub] of 2-10 is considered good and anything between 26-75 is exceptional. Any developer with 75+ followers is considered super amazing.

Super amazing at marketing themselves maybe, but I doubt GitHub follower count is correlated with programming skill in the general case (unless you are hiring Linus Torvalds).

I'd recommend looking at threads like "Who wants to be hired?" before looking at GitHub profiles(!!). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534

But, uh. What's the reality for tech recruiters? I would think that there are enough applicants for many jobs that finding people isn't the problem?

Anyone know of a place like stack overflow where short term programming tasks could be posted. Maybe 1-10 hours, with a reputation system. So you could pick a language, technology/lib, and a spec and people would bid against it. Upon completion you could rate the implementation and their skill with whatever technology/lib they used.

Why, oh, why, this clickbaity and non informative articles end up in HN? Is it because we are so eager to find a solution to this problem, that we settle for anything?

1. Try GitHub... 2. Try Stack Overflow... 3. Try...hackathons? 4. Try..whatever recruiters are trying??

That's it. Save the click.