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

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Post by ElComradio »

teraflop wrote: post #136
silverbax88 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For a front end web dev that makes sense. If you have been working on e.g. internal tools or some other proprietary stuff for a long time, how are you supposed to prove their existence?

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

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Post by Nadya »

danielvinson wrote: post #18

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

I consider this outdated due to the age of Social Media where people can be easily searched up and identified to see what they look like.

The reasons for not attaching a photo are largely out of date.

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

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Post by teraflop »

ElComradio wrote: post #141
teraflop wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For a front end web dev that makes sense. If you have been working on e.g. internal tools or some other proprietary stuff for a long time, how are you supposed to prove their existence?

Obviously it doesn't apply to everything. But for something like a public website or mobile app that would be reasonably expected to be easily findable, the fact that it isn't is weird. One project like that makes me wonder what the situation is; several make me suspicious.

For what it's worth, some Googling turned up these links:

http://www.spse-po.sk/web/

https://github.com/mochja/odovzdaj.to

but it shouldn't have been so difficult to find them.

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

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Post by geographomics »

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…

Well the school website definitely exists: http://www.spse-po.sk/

And there is a github repo for his "upload.it" project, which appears to be a collaboration: https://github.com/mochja/odovzdaj.to

The Wire Clothing brand appears to be a work in progress as of the start of this month: https://dribbble.com/shots/2003539-WIRE-Clothing-brand-label, https://dribbble.com/shots/2004870--WIP-Wire-Shirts

And VIDEBY, which was also a collaboration, seems to be a school project only: https://www.google.com/search?q="videby"+site:sk

So his work doesn't seem to be that much oversold, though I agree it would be nice to see more detail than a screenshot.

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

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Post by danielvinson »

Nadya wrote: post #142
danielvinson wrote: post #18

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

I consider this outdated due to the age of Social Media where people can be easily searched up and identified to see what they look like. The reasons for not attaching a photo are largely out of date.

The reason for not including pictures is entirely a legal issue. If a picture is included in the resume and the company decides to not hire that person (despite being qualified), they could sue for discrimination. If the company instead throws out ALL resumes with pictures, they don't ever get sued. Logically, any company that is large enough to have a legal team should be expected to throw out all resumes with pictures on them for this reason.

It is common practice at larger companies now to also obfuscate names of candidates to further eliminate bias and lawsuits.

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

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Post by Raphmedia »

ElComradio wrote: post #131
silverbax88 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Out of the 120 developers where I work, about 5 have active github accounts.

Hiring based on github is ridiculous.

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

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Post by themodelplumber »

soneca wrote: post #24

Your page looks great because you have great skills and achievements to show. Remember that. You are getting A LOT of attention in HN, that will sure be picked up by another places on the interwebs. So, my piece of advice: do not use this fame and fall in temptation to start capitalizaing solely on your personal brand, giving lectures, interviews, writing books on how to be hired by the hottest startups and other dis…

If you already know how to build simple things, why not write some books and get publicity if you have the chance? It would only increase demand for things that you are hoping to build in the future. I can build things like crazy and I'm still hoping to write a book...someday...

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

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Post by quadrature »

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/…

Is this only for students in the UK ?
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