I never said it was a privilege to be interviewed by me. But if you show up for an interview, I expect that you can demonstrate your abilities.

Also, I never said that I only spend 10 minutes on each candidate. I said that I spend 10 minutes deciding whether a phone screen is warranted. Giving the benefit of the doubt that a candidate has the most basic coding skills I scheduled a phone screen well over 1/2 the time.

After that it’s 20 minutes on the phone w/ the person. Then its interview time, which is 1:1 time for a person to see who we are and show who they are.

Overall, from first contact to offer, I would spend 4–5 hours reading about and speaking with a candidate. Plus 4–5 hours of my other team members time.

To vet someone based on their 960+ day git commit history would take several hours-days. I don’t have time for that.

I added more of an explanation to my original comment.