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In all three cases, I eventually trained everyone how to use git, so there is that as well.
"Nobody cares about your code" That's a peculiar claim about people who hire employees to create code. "It’s not the code that counts, it’s the product" So is everyone only hiring programmers who write code which can be sloppy and full of technical debt and impossible maintain, as long as the product works okay for now?
The result is the only thing the customer and upper management sees. Doesn't matter if it will explode in a few months at best, right then and there it generates revenue and visibility.
For the last two or three contract jobs I have got, including my current one, just the fact I had a working github repos was enough to impress the hiring guys. In all three cases, I eventually trained everyone how to use git, so there is that as well.
> GitHub has a rich ecosystem of free tools for building, packaging, testing and much more. All these tools are mandatory for professional software development.
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Here's a really simple project for this kind of stuff if anyone is stuck on ideas: - Make a website that accepts some form values - After submitted, send an email to someone Congratulations, you now have an exciting SaaS solution built with love using modern web technologies that can be hosted on any cloud provider or on-prem infrastructure and scales extremely well for businesses and companies which can save them th…
You jest, but it's clear you've not tried to make that product, as it is much harder than it sounds if you count "make it past their spam filter" as delivering email.
And that's still not the point -- the point is that a Github profile may becoming a checkbox for the hiring filter that few scrutinizes. They are using weak hiring signals and I will absolutely punish them by bypassing it with as little effort as possible for not doing their homework while making me jump through interviewing hoops.
The last time I interviewed the technical interviewer actually had me go over my openEtG project, & dive into the guts of the AI's eval. They also stumbled upon https://github.com/serprex/brainwebfuckassembly which ended up having a profanity filled interview
They started to explain the code challenge that would follow if I was invited to a 2nd tech interview before realizing I'd already done it: https://github.com/serprex/backend-coding-challenge
I fixed their github pages page (previously wouldn't load stats & projects) https://github.com/coveo/coveo.github.io/pull/3 but that didn't come up
I didn't get past the first tech interview. Admittedly I'm terrible in interviews: bring up feeling I have a weakness with mathematics, don't have a prepared answer for "what is clean code", when asked about "code patterns" I start rambling about how data structures are essentially a pattern
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Here's a really simple project for this kind of stuff if anyone is stuck on ideas: - Make a website that accepts some form values - After submitted, send an email to someone Congratulations, you now have an exciting SaaS solution built with love using modern web technologies that can be hosted on any cloud provider or on-prem infrastructure and scales extremely well for businesses and companies which can save them th…
You jest, but it's clear you've not tried to make that product, as it is much harder than it sounds if you count "make it past their spam filter" as delivering email.
"Nobody cares about your code" That's a peculiar claim about people who hire employees to create code. "It’s not the code that counts, it’s the product" So is everyone only hiring programmers who write code which can be sloppy and full of technical debt and impossible maintain, as long as the product works okay for now?
It shows I have MY (as opposed to 'uni forced me') foot in the door and proves (along with a certificate) that I know English really well.
There are many people who just coast through their CS degree on medium grades but still have basic problems with git, bash, English, etc.
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Yeah. Code is the product. It's like saying, "we don't sell ingredients, we sell meals".
So not really, right? Code is just symbols on a screen. It's the abstractions that count.
Also have the same repos on my pinned repositories on github. On the site, for the projects I contribute to, I mention the majority of what I actually worked on and provide links to the PRs. Also, the "contributor" badges lead to a Github search of my name on the project.