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Ask HN: Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

#1
I am not posting looking for a job offer, but just curious if I would be hire-able with my resume as it is. I own a house in a somewhat rural area so would likely need a remote position.

Here is my resume. I coded it by hand. Personal info scrubbed.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/RNxJWp

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#2
Since you present your resume in code, I would have to take that into consideration. Your front-end skills are a good start, but I wouldn't hire you based on them alone. I honestly think you're putting yourself at risk but giving a potential employer the code of your resume to judge you by. The outcome is not as pretty as if you just created a standard resume, and I don't know that most people hiring would get that.

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#3

Since you present your resume in code, I would have to take that into consideration. Your front-end skills are a good start, but I wouldn't hire you based on them alone. I honestly think you're putting yourself at risk but giving a potential employer the code of your resume to judge you by. The outcome is not as pretty as if you just created a standard resume, and I don't know that most people hiring would get that.

thanks. Front end skills are obviously not my highlight as can be seen from the content of the resume, but I wanted to demonstrate that I have at least good coding style/organization and have some front end chops to complement my other skills.

What of the general content of my resume?

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#7
I've wanted to ask something similar for a long time. I have a government job that has decent pay, but the schedule sucks, and I'm not challenged at all.

I have freelance full-stack experience, just nothing black-and-white professional wise other than sysadmin & electronics experience in the military. I recently moved to what could be considered an "up-and-coming" startup city and I've been tossing around the idea of pursuing a change of career to development, but I keep telling myself an entry-level gig while keeping my salary around $80k isn't a reasonable expectation. Does anyone here have any insight?

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#8
I would far prefer to hire a passionate hobbyist to someone who went to school just to get credentials for something that pays well. People with passion tend to improve their skills on their own and genuinely care about the craft.

But you can't hire based on their resume.

Re: Ask HN: Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

#10

Since you present your resume in code, I would have to take that into consideration. Your front-end skills are a good start, but I wouldn't hire you based on them alone. I honestly think you're putting yourself at risk but giving a potential employer the code of your resume to judge you by. The outcome is not as pretty as if you just created a standard resume, and I don't know that most people hiring would get that.

To put it more bluntly, this resume is really just not very visually pleasing. I definitely wouldn't recommend drawing so much attention to your HTML/CSS skills unless they're really outstanding. And even then, going through Codepen is unnecessary because anybody who's going to be evaluating your front end code knows how to open the console and look at your code anyway.
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