This is very cool. Although I don't know how accurate this is, if calibrated and tuned to yield a certain degree of accuracy it will have a variety of use cases.
For example -- When interviewing someone, being able to run their github username (if known of course) to analyze their commit messages, comments, discussions. Or even their hn, reddit, twitter user names (if the usernames are linked with their first names, nothing creepy). It will potentially help to identify candidates that are downright rude, arrogant etc.
Or analyze internal mailing lists, hipchat/slack channels for co workers who are potentially burnt out.
>>It will potentially help to identify candidates that are downright rude, arrogant etc.
This sounds very dangerous to me. I assume when recruiters and/or lead engineers decide to reach out to me via LinkedIn, they did their homework on me. I purposely link to enough stuff for them to realize "smtddr" is my handle. The same blog & youtube channel in my HN profile is also in my LinkedIn. But I expect a human to look, not some computer judging me. I can totally see people getting lazy and just doing stuff like only filtering for people who rate 80% on openness or something. Then everyone will start grooming their posts simply to get positive results... then someone will create a social website that claims to block those scanners so people can say whatever they want.
It just forces people underground and the filters won't work anymore since at that point you might as well assume everyone is gaming the system.
(fwiw, I'm also against standardized tests. Anything that forces a whole group of people to start grooming themselves for a very specific measurement kills diversity, imho. Since the very term "standardized" kinda goes against the concept of diverse... and people become lazy and just rely on such tests to make or break the deal)
But can you really judge a person based upon commits them might make?
You can read the words they wrote but you cannot perceive the tone they wrote it in....I dont think this is helpful and may dismiss candidates that are otherwise perfect except when Watson analyzes them.
For example -- When interviewing someone, being able to run their github username (if known of course) to analyze their commit messages, comments, discussions. Or even their hn, reddit, twitter user names (if the usernames are linked with their first names, nothing creepy). It will potentially help to identify candidates that are downright rude, arrogant etc.
Or analyze internal mailing lists, hipchat/slack channels for co workers who are potentially burnt out.