Spending most of my time reading about new gadgets and technology related products such as a Smart Mug to help me monitor my caffeine intake to a Robot Vacuum Cleaner to help me get away with my weekend cleaning episodes, I realised that there is no limitation of how technology can be used to make our lives better and more comfortable.

Recently, I had taken up a role as a marketeer in a super cool project called Indorse. This new role had gotten me into a new path of learning. Now being part of this cool project, required me to learn more about the problems developers face and how I can help developers without a formal education to put forward their coding skills and find a job.

Here’s a short introduction about Indorse and what we’re doing to put forward people’s skills!

Indorse is a Skills Validation Platform designed for programmers to have their coding skills evaluated in an objective manner.

This is how his/her journey looks like on the Indorse platform: a programmer makes a claim by selecting a programming language and a proficiency level (e.g. Javascript — Intermediate.). The programmer will also have the option of submitting his repo (GitHub) or completing an assignment.

Once submitted, a panel of expert developers will evaluate his/her coding skills based on the code he/she shared. The expert developers can either indorse/validate or flag/reject his/her claim of possessing the specific coding skill in question.

Similarly, companies can also create a profile and have all their tech candidates evaluated. At the end of the evaluation, companies receive a 360-degree report on each candidate with insights on his/her coding skills, code quality, design knowledge, etc..

At Indorse, one of my main objectives is to help programmers with no formal background to bring forward their coding skills and find the right job. Being relatively new to this environment of programming, I always have a ton of questions. The new year’s eve was no exception, however, this time I came up with a question for my Google Assistant:

“Hey Google, which programming languages are in demand?” Ans: Java, Javascript, HTML and Python are the most in demand programming languages.

A spot on one liner! Although I had been using Google Assistant for over a year now, I had always thought of it as a personal assistant for booking ticket to a movie, making a reservation at a restaurant, or my personal weatherman or newsreader.

Since we search the internet for information, and get a ton of results, this type of technology can help us as a filter and provide us with the most relevant information.

Keeping that in mind, I decided to test Google Assistant by asking some coding related questions; this is what I got in return: