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Are you saying that the password field returned a password hash of the correct password when you mistyped it? That's extremely bizarre.
Seems like some misused form framework. They were potentially striving for Facebook-like functionality ("Hi Tom, welcome back") and got it wrong.
A Dark Age of Camelot (MMORPG) chat log file analyzer written in Perl in 2003-2005 helped me land my first dev job.
I switched careers (due to lack of job openings) from becoming a protestant pastor to being a full time developer. I had almost no proof of having programmed in Perl for close to 6 years as a hobby, but the company desperately needed another coder and their senior programmer at that time had taken a look at my SF page. The boss was impressed when I said that my code had been downloaded by over a 1000 users, and so I got my first job, rewriting an SMS-messaging platform.
Now, over 10 years later, my GitHub profile only rarely comes up when recruiters try to reach me - some, I think, use web scraping to match profiles with LinkedIn / Xing to say nice things as a conversation starter in generic emails.
Nobody ever looks at my repos :(. Software hiring is stupidly broken. Google has done much research on hiring and a code sample+cognitive ability are the two most important predictors of job performance. Tell that to anyone that hired me ever.... The first time you'll even talk to another dev is your on-site. When I was in charge of hiring once we made a huge deal of user repos and probably spent more time looking at…
What about people that don't have much on their github? I like the idea of judging people based on their code, but I would say the majority of people don't feel like coding at home after doing it for 8+ hours day.
Your choices are: only stay at jobs that let you greenfield the most cutting edge, experimental technology in production, constantly develop yourself by working on your own on the side, or expect to be outmatched the next time you look for a job (when those experimental technologies have had the kinks worked out and are now suitable for production. Then the cycle starts again).
Or you can do what my father's generation of programmers did: stay with the same company doing the same thing for so long that you are no longer in the game.
Nobody ever looks at my repos :(. Software hiring is stupidly broken. Google has done much research on hiring and a code sample+cognitive ability are the two most important predictors of job performance. Tell that to anyone that hired me ever.... The first time you'll even talk to another dev is your on-site. When I was in charge of hiring once we made a huge deal of user repos and probably spent more time looking at…
What about people that don't have much on their github? I like the idea of judging people based on their code, but I would say the majority of people don't feel like coding at home after doing it for 8+ hours day.
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What about people that don't have much on their github? I like the idea of judging people based on their code, but I would say the majority of people don't feel like coding at home after doing it for 8+ hours day.
As far as I can see, there isn't really much of an alternative to coding in your free time. It's the only way to stay current unless your employer gives you time to improve your skills on the job. Which usually means you are using unproven tools in production. Your choices are: only stay at jobs that let you greenfield the most cutting edge, experimental technology in production, constantly develop yourself by workin…
Learned some cool stuff, but also how terribly behind my company was
Somehow I managed to land my first programming job in the most stereotypical means possible. I had connected with this young startup through my budding network. I was young, they were young, and we were both involved in TeensInTech (formerly a community of teens interested in startups). I had done a couple rounds of UI/UX feedback for them, that they had requested via TinT. The company made a password & bookmark mana…
Are you saying that the password field returned a password hash of the correct password when you mistyped it? That's extremely bizarre.
I imagine that in time, someone will look at that code and use it as a consideration for his employment and be just as disappointed in his output as I was. You may hate it but I love white-boarding with candidates. It's not a binary pass/fail exercise but a look into how a person approaches solving a problem and handling on-the-spot pressure. Sometimes things break in prod and the pressure is on, I want to work people that do well under that pressure.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying that the password field returned a password hash of the correct password when you mistyped it? That's extremely bizarre.
Seems like some misused form framework. They were potentially striving for Facebook-like functionality ("Hi Tom, welcome back") and got it wrong.
Didn't actually know how to use git when I landed my first FT dev job. Had no Github Account, no portfolio site. Been coding since I was 12 though, had a good grasp of HTML/CSS, jQuery (but not really of javascript), VBScript, C#, SQL. All stuff I picked up either while making plugins/themes for a BBS I operated, or writing scripts for bots for MMORPGs. My code quality sucked, but I made stuff that people (other BBS…