Top talent is based outside of USA too

How would you compare candidates that have some code in GitHub and those that don't ?

You can assess the ones that don't have code on GitHub in a different way, but there is no reason to ignore a possibly valuable datapoint.

But faang companies try to objectively compare all candidates. Also they have so many resumes that it doesn't seem feasible to review code on GitHub.

5 hours x 1/2 people checking boxes is energy that could be put to better use.

Why not just train developers you have instead of hiring new ones?

Would you choose Scala again (assuming you're starting similar project today)?

Not sure. If I stay in JVM, I may opt for Kotlin.

Also, they're saying: "At least half of our Tweepforce will be women". So they're suggesting that more than 50% of one gender is ok, as long as they're women.

A majority in one company of an overall underrepresented demographic isn’t the oppression that you so desperately want it to be.

JDBI also could be really nice as a minimalistic layer for a db access

Maybe people want to live for themselves because having children in the current economy is too exhausting? I'm pretty sure that if people could more easily afford everything what's required for having children they would be more willing to have them. Sure, some people still don't want to have a responsibility but I think plenty of people want children but just can't afford them.

Currently I think it's quite expensive (for locals). E.g. bedroom + living room costs > 3k PLN in Cracow, and probably more in Warsaw. At the same time junior dev can earn about 5-9k PLN net. My non-dev friends often are not even able to live in Cracow.

We don't have such a law in Poland but we have a nice culture of posting salary ranges in IT offers. It's very ubiquitous on boards, Facebook, Slack channels, etc. We also have a (very popular) board where it's required to share a salary range (you can take a look on nofluffjobs.com if you are interested, it's not an ad, I just love the idea).

> When the app was written in Go

Did you rewrite it to something else?

Yes we did. But the rewrite was not because of this issue.

Out of curiosity...which language did you choose and why? How did it turn out?

We chose C++. For our particular domain, most libraries were written in C++. Previously we used a lot of cgo and SWIG.

They wrote it in PHP4 and it currently routes 2/3 of the internet.