A New Resource for Hiring Programmers Has Become Entirely Too Successful

GitHire is one of a few tech-job sites that home in on talent by analyzing a programmer’s code available on the Internet and online presence and then assigning a rank relative to his or her peers. The goal is to find “diamonds in the rough,” said Rhett Creighton, who co-founded the site with Dane Jensen — talented but obscure candidates an employer might never otherwise discover. When GitHire, based in Austin (TX), began operations three weeks ago, it did so with a bold promise: it would find five talented programmers, who could be interviewed by phone — for a $1,000 fee. Instantly, it was flooded with more orders than it could handle and raised the fee to tamp down interest.