Github is Your New Resume

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 15, 2011, 9:13 AM UTC

kenjackson wrote: post #65

jashmenn wrote: post #52

I recently interviewed at a Fortune 100 company's new "Innovation" group. I pointed them to the various projects I have on Github as examples of my work. They reviewed it and liked what they saw. However, my interviewer told me "we've seen your code on Github. It's great, but just so you know, you won't be able to keep that up if you work here." I asked more about what he meant by this and he told me that the company…

Companies: allow your employees to freely work on open-source and it will improve your recruiting. Apple barely lets their employees blog even, and last I checked they're doing OK by all counts. Unfortunately, the intersection for people who are passionate about their 9to5 work and those that are passionate about their side-project seems to actually be fairly small.

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Post by Tyrannosaurs » Fri, Jul 15, 2011, 10:38 AM UTC

wisty wrote: post #117

mechanical_fish wrote: post #56

I don't want to take the time to build it, so here's a silly programming project for an afternoon: Build a bot that can simulate an open source genius via a classic academic technique: Plagiarism. The algorithm: Use Github's API and/or Google to find some popular repos. Fork those repos into a new Github account named (e.g.) "Nicolai". For each repo, find some other forks of that repo. Grab some branch names and comm…

Surely building the bot would prove a certain proficiency. (I think they train educators to say this.)

Yes, but a lot less than would be required to code the things that are actually being stolen.

That's the art of plagarism - knowing enough to steal well.

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