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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by fvcffcdddfcfff »

abhaynayar wrote: post #170
OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)

maybe not the recruiter but the hiring manager or prospective colleagues who'll interview you later? not the number of stars, but I like looking what people have done online ie GitHub/blog. I feel like it is a nice thing to talk about. I know it's an unpopular opinion these days cause everyone wants work life balance and not work beyond the office but it's always nice to see projects you've worked on it does show som…

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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by Svoka »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #157
BeaverGoose wrote: post #33

"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal

As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)

I hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by Agentlien »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #157
BeaverGoose wrote: post #33

"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal

As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)

I have a few blog posts which have received only about ~250 upvotes across different communities, plus a GitHub project with just 30 stars.

Still, both of these were really interesting to my future colleagues (not the recruiter) who interviewed me in the last round of the interviews which landed me my current job. They had read them ahead of time and it really shaped the technical part of the interview.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by spencer-p »

neilv wrote: post #108

It's a little bit n-gate. Who unfortunately stopped posting HN critiques, a few years ago. But you can still read old posts on: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/07/ (If you follow that link from HN, and the site sees an HN `Referer`, it will do a fake captcha load, so then click "HACKERNEWS" in the navbar on the right.)

I do miss n-gate. I have to assume they are much happier now that they've ended that project, though.
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