alt Hacker News> we also ask the candidate to open a PR against the repo just to see if they know the basics of git
I've heard this multiple times now and it still boggles my mind that git is something you have to test for.
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fernandotakai • today at 3:20 PM
it's incredibly sad but it's real -- so many senior candidates have problems with commit messages, opening PRs.
not even joking: i've seen people with like 10y of experience trying to push to main :(
kerenskiy • today at 3:25 PM
PRs are not only not a basic feature of git - it's not a git feature at all. Though button clicking on GitHub is anyway a crazy thing to test
At one job I had, we used git extensively, but not GitHub. We had internal systems for review and branch management. I could tell you all the gory details about various workflows and landmines in git. Is the test here really about git, or git+GitHub?