> engineers who've worked with them (or reviewed their OSS contributions) could validate or challenge that [skill]

I like your idea of verifiable skills but I don’t think the proposal is solid. We need a trusted third-party as a validator so everyone is happy. Otherwise, we bring bias and corruption into this.

The problem is currently solved by professional certification — yes it could be gamed but it provides an official confirmation from a reputable source rather than someone’s word that you’re good.

Please keep iterating! We need better tools!

Thank you for the feedback, I appriciate it. The idea is to avoid the corruption and bias by hand picking a starter deck of super trusted few professionals who would be able to verify others.

For example to prove someone is an senior engineer from google I can ask for a pay slip and references and yes certifications, so we would become that rusted partner. Still working on the proposal and iterations, I wanna talk to much engineers, hiring manages as possible since this is going to be for everyone, to navigate this wild job market.

We definitely need better tools, at the moment it is wild that it takes 1000 of applications to just get an answer from any company, this not right at all