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Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by ElComradio »

silverbax88 wrote: post #128
nickysielicki wrote: post #105

As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile…

I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.

I have no (public) github account and I approve this message.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by tjr »

silverbax88 wrote: post #128
nickysielicki wrote: post #105

As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile…

I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.

And other hiring managers do care, like the guy who wrote this article HN discussed a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9447173

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by kidsthesedays »

Good god can we please stop with the photos? Do you people really want to go back to the 1950s where a photo was required with a resume? Do you really want your potential employers to be judging you on your looks/race/ethnicity at the resume stage? It may be beneficial to you (you are the "correct" race and gender and you look young and not ugly) but for those of us that aren't - we don't want pressure to include photos because that will make our resume look unattractive to potential employers.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by icelancer »

silverbax88 wrote: post #128
nickysielicki wrote: post #105

As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile…

I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.

I've hired a lot of developers over the last 10 years and I put a lot of stock in guys contributing to open source or showing their work and interacting with the public.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by ohitsdom »

knd775 wrote: post #111
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go to the Visual Idiot site it has the same background effect so if you've looked at both sites it would be a pretty easy observation.

I don't see the same background effect on this site. Where is it? I can see it on the VI page, though.

Almost at the bottom of the page with his contact info:

http://www.hostmeinca.com/#cta

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by teraflop »

silverbax88 wrote: post #128
nickysielicki wrote: post #105

As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile…

I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.

It doesn't really matter much to me whether the projects somebody has worked on are open-source. But if they can't be demonstrated to exist, that's something else entirely.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by lachenmayer »

neoromantique wrote: post #115
lachenmayer wrote: post #97

Hey Marek, I see you've been accepted at UCL, would you like to check out what London is like? We at HackCampus http://hackcampus.io/ could offer you a 10-week internship at some amazing startups (GoCardless, SwiftKey, Kano and more) in London this summer. It's well-paid, and we'll give you free accommodation over the summer with a batch of other awesome student hackers like yourself. http://hackcampus.io/internship/…

#Not Marek Wanted to apply on your website, during registration received error 500, then CSRF verification failed. Request Aborted. And then My username is taken. Reproduce-able too, I guess I should stop being admin and go into QA? :D

Thanks, we just found out! This definitely worked for several weeks previously, ha. We're looking into it right now.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by mikegerwitz »

silverbax88 wrote: post #128
nickysielicki wrote: post #105

As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile…

I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.

I haven't taken GitHub into consideration in hiring; it doesn't matter where the source code is. Just show me that you are passionate about what you do, that you enjoy learning and can learn well from others, can work as part of a team, and that you have some code out there that demonstrates what you've played around with.

I'd be cautious if an employer wanted you to specifically have a GitHub account.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by kidsthesedays »

muglug wrote: post #53
danielvinson wrote: post #18

FYI in the US it is considered inappropriate to have your picture on a resume.

As noted above, it's not a traditional resumé, and at least one study[1] has shown that attractive men benefit by attaching a photo. [1] https://hbr.org/2012/03/photos-of-attractive-female-jo

With this crap becoming "standard" then the implication is if you don't include your photo with your "digital" resume or "social media" profiles you are undesirable/not an attractive male.

I'm in my 30s with 10 years of experience. I look like I'm 12. I get mistaken for a teenager - very often. Nobody will take me seriously if I include a picture with my resume.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by Joky »

silverbax88 wrote: post #128
nickysielicki wrote: post #105

As a 20 year old I'm frustrated that your eye for design is way better than mine, but at the same time, I'm also frustrated that you're listing projects and they're not on your github, nor are they apparently deployed at all... The images aren't hyperlinks. * Wire clothing - there are a billion clothing brands with wire in the name, which one is yours? * VIDBY - google search shows nothing in first 3 pages. * Mobile…

I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.

Well since GitHub is only ~5 years old it is not very surprising...
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