<story><title>New GitHub Profile Badges Beta</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-achievements-recognizing-the-many-stages-of-a-developers-coding-journey/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popcorncowboy</author><text>This is not stupid. It&amp;#x27;s not a waste of time. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if this leads to a proliferation of shit contributions. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it encourages bad practices. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you don&amp;#x27;t like it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s smart.&lt;p&gt;This is WHY Microsoft bought Github. Software is eating the world and Github is where most of the eating happens. There are many career paths that require you to live on Twitter or LinkedIn or whatever. If Github pulls off the bigger play here it won&amp;#x27;t matter what Gitlab or Bitbucket or anyone else ever tries because you will HAVE to be on Github.&lt;p&gt;This is how a trillion dollar company gets its return on GH.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve hit the nail on the head. Most people (at least in my social circles) don&amp;#x27;t like Linkedin, but are on the platform all the same. If an external service becomes the go-to validation for one metric or another, people will use it to try and get an edge, and eventually it means that you need to play the game to get your foot in the door. As an anecdotal example, I once didn&amp;#x27;t hear back after applying for a role, and when I sent them a followup email they said they didn&amp;#x27;t think I was a real person because I wasn&amp;#x27;t on Linkedin. Cue me now being on Linkedin.&lt;p&gt;Given that Stack Overflow has shut down their (very popular) jobs board along with the relevant developer profiles [0], this seems like a great time for Github to try and grab a part of the pie.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;415293&amp;#x2F;sunsetting-jobs-developer-story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;415293&amp;#x2F;sunsetting-j...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>New GitHub Profile Badges Beta</title><url>https://github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-achievements-recognizing-the-many-stages-of-a-developers-coding-journey/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popcorncowboy</author><text>This is not stupid. It&amp;#x27;s not a waste of time. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if this leads to a proliferation of shit contributions. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it encourages bad practices. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you don&amp;#x27;t like it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s smart.&lt;p&gt;This is WHY Microsoft bought Github. Software is eating the world and Github is where most of the eating happens. There are many career paths that require you to live on Twitter or LinkedIn or whatever. If Github pulls off the bigger play here it won&amp;#x27;t matter what Gitlab or Bitbucket or anyone else ever tries because you will HAVE to be on Github.&lt;p&gt;This is how a trillion dollar company gets its return on GH.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solatic</author><text>Precisely. LinkedIn doesn&amp;#x27;t specialize in software, it&amp;#x27;s a glorified résumé database. We all know that résumés don&amp;#x27;t really tell you whether an engineer is going to do good work for you; if they did, the only purpose of engineering interviews would be for culture fit. At the same time, even if all of an engineer&amp;#x27;s contributions were fully in the open and linked to from their GitHub profile, it&amp;#x27;s all a bit too much for a hiring manager to parse per résumé that they receive.&lt;p&gt;Achievements is a way of distilling contributions down to the important questions that hiring managers have: just how senior is this person I&amp;#x27;m interviewing anyway? If I hire this person to do cutting-edge work, are they the kind of person to interact with the community on pushing the state-of-the-art, or not?</text></comment>