The Rise of Proof-Based Hiring (opens in new tab)

Imagine two developers applying for the same role. The first has a computer science degree from a mid-tier university, three years at a company nobody remembers, and a LinkedIn profile that says "passionate about building scalable solutions." The second has no degree. But they have five shipped products, two of them with real paying users, an open source library with 800 GitHub stars, and a public record of two years of consistent building. For most of the last century, the first candidate go...