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Re: The black market in GitHub stars

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Post by icedchai »

nine_zeros wrote: post #3
johnea wrote: post #2

I beg to differ on the concept that github became popular because it integrated social media features. I would assert that github became popular because it offered free online git repo hosting. The social media stuff was only long after the fact, and accelerated under M$ ownership. An old adage was: Every s/w evolves until it becomes an email client The modern version is: Every s/w evolves until it becomes facebook..…

> The modern version is: Every s/w evolves until it becomes facebook... This is primarily due to the SV promotion-driven development culture - where Engineering managers don't do anything but performance reviews while offloading all tech work to tech leads. Then, they force every engineer to magically produce "impact" every 6 months or else... It sounds great because surely "impact" must be getting produced every 6 m…

This reminds me a SV company I worked for a couple years ago. The EM was always going on about impact. I was a staff engineer, needed to have organizational-level impact with my project... on and on. Meanwhile, I'd get so many interruptions for code reviews, meetings, etc. it was almost impossible to get any actual work done.

Re: The black market in GitHub stars

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Post by julianbuse »

tzhenghao wrote: post #79
smacke wrote: post #76

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> Another giveaway is the ratio of stars to watchers / forks. I remember one project with thousands of stars but only 10 users "watching" it. They went on to raise a sizable seed round too. Not necessarily indicative of foul play. I have two projects like this ( https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync and https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow ) and I attribute it to not having great developer documentation.

Good point. By the way, I checked out both projects above and starred them. Pretty cool!

part of the problem /s

Re: The black market in GitHub stars

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Post by nine_zeros »

icedchai wrote: post #91
nine_zeros wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The modern version is: Every s/w evolves until it becomes facebook... This is primarily due to the SV promotion-driven development culture - where Engineering managers don't do anything but performance reviews while offloading all tech work to tech leads. Then, they force every engineer to magically produce "impact" every 6 months or else... It sounds great because surely "impact" must be getting produced every 6 m…

This reminds me a SV company I worked for a couple years ago. The EM was always going on about impact. I was a staff engineer, needed to have organizational-level impact with my project... on and on. Meanwhile, I'd get so many interruptions for code reviews, meetings, etc. it was almost impossible to get any actual work done.

> This reminds me a SV company I worked for a couple years ago. The EM was always going on about impact. I was a staff engineer, needed to have organizational-level impact with my project... on and on. Meanwhile, I'd get so many interruptions for code reviews, meetings, etc. it was almost impossible to get any actual work done.

Been there. The obsession with levels and career ladder documents is too much sometimes. It is so hard to be an IC with constant org-wide impact as opposed to being a manager whose impact is automatically wider due to reporting structure.

Re: The black market in GitHub stars

#95

Post by flir »

constantly wrote: post #53
tedivm wrote: post #22

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In my experience it's a positive sign to have an active Github profile or open source contributions, but it is not a negative sign if a candidate doesn't have one. At higher levels (Principal, Distinguished) you often have to show external contributions to the industry, and some companies count open source towards this. I can honestly say that my profile has been a huge benefit to my career, but that's more due to 20…

Yeah, when your GitHub profile looks like _that_! I would take that into account as well as a hiring manager. I do regularly click through candidates’ GH profiles and they’re usually not noteworthy so don’t count them for or against them. If they looked like yours though I would definitely read more deeply.

Yeah, that's not a github profile that's a landing page for a one-man consultancy. Very impressive.

Re: The black market in GitHub stars

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Re: The black market in GitHub stars

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Post by icedchai »

nine_zeros wrote: post #94
icedchai wrote: post #91

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This reminds me a SV company I worked for a couple years ago. The EM was always going on about impact. I was a staff engineer, needed to have organizational-level impact with my project... on and on. Meanwhile, I'd get so many interruptions for code reviews, meetings, etc. it was almost impossible to get any actual work done.

> This reminds me a SV company I worked for a couple years ago. The EM was always going on about impact. I was a staff engineer, needed to have organizational-level impact with my project... on and on. Meanwhile, I'd get so many interruptions for code reviews, meetings, etc. it was almost impossible to get any actual work done. Been there. The obsession with levels and career ladder documents is too much sometimes. I…

I eventually left. I hated the culture. They would literally shame people for not hitting 90% of their sprint goals, meanwhile the interruptions were constant and never ending. Also, despite all the time spent on code reviews, the code base was incredibly difficult to work with. Technical debt did not begin to describe it. 5000 line single file "modules", decade old dependencies nobody dared upgrade, not to mention Python 2.7 (in 2022), multiple ORMs, on and on.

Re: The black market in GitHub stars

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Post by tedivm »

Lucretia9 wrote: post #57
tedivm wrote: post #22

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In my experience it's a positive sign to have an active Github profile or open source contributions, but it is not a negative sign if a candidate doesn't have one. At higher levels (Principal, Distinguished) you often have to show external contributions to the industry, and some companies count open source towards this. I can honestly say that my profile has been a huge benefit to my career, but that's more due to 20…

An Ada image with zero use of Ada.

What Ada image?

Re: The black market in GitHub stars

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Post by Grimburger »

siva7 wrote: post #37
Grimburger wrote: post #31

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You can share private repos? Granting access for a week isn't hard.

Why should parent bother if the startup ceo can't be bothered to interview on the signal of a personal referal?

Because they want a job and need to pay for the goods and services they desire to utilise?
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