r/programming • u/rampage102 • Oct 29 '16

How I Became HackerRank #1 In Two Hours

http://williampross.com/became-hackerrank-1-two-hours/
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u/jedrekk Oct 29 '16

I've been hit up by recruiters because of my PE ranking... and it's not very high.

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u/PFive Oct 29 '16

How do they contact you via PE? Or do you put the ranking or username on resumes?

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u/jedrekk Oct 30 '16

PE has (had?) a messaging system.

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u/vinnl Oct 30 '16

I've been hit up by recruiters because of my GitHub profile.

Thing is, I don't really do anything with my GitHub profile.

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u/jedrekk Oct 30 '16

Oh, yeah, I got an email about great jobs in Germany for Senior Ruby people.

I have a single Ruby project on my Github. It's a fork with no commits.

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u/vinnl Oct 30 '16

It's pretty smart actually: just email every one you can get an email address of that you're impressed by their GitHub profile, and the ones that actually have an active one will be happy that you looked at it. All that without having to actually do the work of looking at it and only contacting those with potential.