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Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by _hardwaregeek » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:29 AM UTC

I don't judge a person's technical skill through this metric (or at least I make an attempt not to), but it's rather noticeable when someone has nothing going on online. A blank GitHub, no website, no projects, etc. For an employed person, eh, whatever, maybe they just have a life.

But for a student? I'll admit I get a little suspicious. I'm not saying students should have a huge roster of projects and crazy extracurriculars. But something like a simple GitHub projects site or more than 50 commits in a year goes a long way to making yourself seem like an active, competent developer. I can count the number of people I've met with semi-active GitHubs at my school on one hand. That's not exactly a vote of confidence for my school's CS program.

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by 0x54D5 » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:30 AM UTC

davesque wrote: post #60

IMHO, a personal website that is super out of date looks worse than one that doesn't exist. My website is a good example of this (being out of date). So I recently removed it from my resume.

Mine is just screenshots of projects I've worked on and links to my LinkedIn and Github. It doesn't need to look like Geocities circa 1998.

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by dan-robertson » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:32 AM UTC

davesque wrote: post #60

IMHO, a personal website that is super out of date looks worse than one that doesn't exist. My website is a good example of this (being out of date). So I recently removed it from my resume.

It seems the opposite is true in academia where most academics have a personal website but the normal style is best described as “mid 1990s”.

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by 0x54D5 » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:33 AM UTC

_hardwaregeek wrote: post #61

I don't judge a person's technical skill through this metric (or at least I make an attempt not to), but it's rather noticeable when someone has nothing going on online. A blank GitHub, no website, no projects, etc. For an employed person, eh, whatever, maybe they just have a life. But for a student? I'll admit I get a little suspicious. I'm not saying students should have a huge roster of projects and crazy extracur…

In my experience the percentage of students in my CS program that even had the technical expertise to even know how to use Git didn't even approach 50% by the junior year. So it's not a surprise that by senior year most haven't even gotten there yet.

I hope teachers force students to host their projects online as a way of learning but too few do that.

Re: Have a personal web site

#65

Post by hackits » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:40 AM UTC

reitzensteinm wrote: post #42

hackits wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My lawyer looked up my profile online. He loved a lot of games I made.

Well don't hold back. What are the games :)

Worked on:

Operation Flashpoint

Virtual Battlespace 2

Virtual Battlespace 3

ARMA

ARMA II

Side project with Titan Vanguard/Outerra. Then left the game industry. Got married, had kids, and now divorced and getting back into larger projects.

Re: Have a personal web site

#66

Post by naavis » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:41 AM UTC

jzzskijj wrote: post #28

In Finland it is illegal to google for applicant's online presence, because of the possibility of judging the candidate because of misidentification. You have to have applicant's permission to that. And I am glad, because one of my name doubles isn't very representative person according to their online presence.

The article said that the applicant googled the interviewer, though.

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by stormbeard » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:41 AM UTC

_hardwaregeek wrote: post #61

I don't judge a person's technical skill through this metric (or at least I make an attempt not to), but it's rather noticeable when someone has nothing going on online. A blank GitHub, no website, no projects, etc. For an employed person, eh, whatever, maybe they just have a life. But for a student? I'll admit I get a little suspicious. I'm not saying students should have a huge roster of projects and crazy extracur…

I don't see why a student should be measured differently when the developers with full-time jobs are excused with "maybe they just have a life". Some students have jobs outside of school or obligations/hobbies that take precedence over coding projects. I just think everyone should be held to the same bar, even students.

Re: Have a personal web site

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Re: Have a personal web site

#69

Post by pkalinowski » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:47 AM UTC

hackits wrote: post #65

reitzensteinm wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well don't hold back. What are the games :)

Worked on: Operation Flashpoint Virtual Battlespace 2 Virtual Battlespace 3 ARMA ARMA II Side project with Titan Vanguard/Outerra. Then left the game industry. Got married, had kids, and now divorced and getting back into larger projects.

I remember spending hours and hours in Operation Flashpoint demo as a kid. Good times :)

Re: Have a personal web site

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Post by phito » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:48 AM UTC

draugadrotten wrote: post #39

quanticle wrote: post #3

“I like to look people up before an interview to try to get to know them a bit. You were a complete ghost online.” Why is this a bad thing?

It makes one an easy target for negative campaigning. If you have no "real" web pages showing your real self, the first hit will be someone else talking trash about you. Or worse, pretending to be you. A vast and positive online presence is an insurance.

Why would anyone publicly trashtalk a ghost?