What happens when you stop relying on resumes
When people abandoned resumes like this it's because there is some corruption in their hiring process and lesser skilled management is attempting to hire down for political control.  Their only goal is to go through the motions and stay employed.  Some people don't want experts.  They want to have the illusion of a functioning business unit.  People with no formal training that have projects that sound impressive to the layperson are not going to make waves or quit when they find out that management really doesn't know what they're doing.  Just as one can build a model airplane in their garage, those same people will never be able to build an airliner.  It's not a good idea to hire hobbyists if you're in the airliner business.  When you have layperson managers judging what is a strong candidate and what is important technology, you are going to get hobbyists skilled in popular tech and your company is going to get worthless hobbyist tech for your organization.  For example, the article refers to an 'open source Android animation library.'  To many people that sounds like a massive, great achievement.  On the tech scale of importance it is a 0 or 1 out of ten.  No business can be formed around an animation library, it's not a difficult or uncommon thing, and there are thousands of alternatives.