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

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Post by kidsthesedays »

jacks205 wrote: post #189
porter wrote: post #25

Congrats. You put a lot of American job seeking college kids to shame.

This guy is selling out hard. Coming from a guy with a more active GitHub and projects, I don't see how this guy is any different than any American college kid.

He isn't much different from a run of the mill college kid. He just has a "startup style" website with gratuitous pictures of himself all over it. It's called "personal marketing." Apparently software engineers are supposed to do that nowadays - our code no longer speaks for itself.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

memonkey wrote: post #200
argklm wrote: post #197

I don't see anything exceptional about this. There are a lot of tutorials and a lot of sites guiding you through building a site like that. You should never put yourself in a situation to ask for something. You must put others in the situation to ask for you. Making a website like countless others and having no substantial code to back off what you are claiming, won't put you in front of countless of other talented p…

Maybe because he's 19? I agree though. This is not exceptional or very impressive. I don't really get why this has more upvotes than the 14 year old kid who posted a relatively way cooler site that utilized a bunch of APIs, etc.

Drive and ambition are more valuable than "look what cool thing I made". You can teach talent; you can't teach motivation.

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

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Post by jrm2k6 »

chrisper wrote: post #103
HNdev1995 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For work - what about H1B visa? Even if a company agrees to go through the process, he still has a slim chance of getting the visa, right? I am just trying to familiarise myself to the process since I will be going through it next year.

You need a bachelors degree in order to get an H1B.

And more than that, not enough spots for everybody. Big companies are going to get most of them no? Especially for an intern, it is almost impossible.

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

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Post by argklm »

memonkey wrote: post #200
argklm wrote: post #197

I don't see anything exceptional about this. There are a lot of tutorials and a lot of sites guiding you through building a site like that. You should never put yourself in a situation to ask for something. You must put others in the situation to ask for you. Making a website like countless others and having no substantial code to back off what you are claiming, won't put you in front of countless of other talented p…

Maybe because he's 19? I agree though. This is not exceptional or very impressive. I don't really get why this has more upvotes than the 14 year old kid who posted a relatively way cooler site that utilized a bunch of APIs, etc.

He is young, surely, but in this very moment, there are silent young people on GitHub with exceptional projects. There are some people in their early-20 that are proving to be exceptional in the startup and the programming world. Maybe we are stuck in time when we started: back in the days Internet was more like a myth than a resource. And this feat would have been amazing. Nowadays you can nearly be a programmer without knowing how to program. Today the entry level was lowered exponentially... Back in the days there was an obscure manual and in a lot of cases written in another language with the need to go to the university and be laughed on the face, because you were too young, with a question that neither the professor was able to answer... And this was the easy part. For the hard part... Let the reminiscence kicks in and be amazed to how far we have gone. Learning alone like 20 years ago, could be outlawed as torture now lol

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

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Post by jcliff »

kidsthesedays wrote: post #201
jacks205 wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This guy is selling out hard. Coming from a guy with a more active GitHub and projects, I don't see how this guy is any different than any American college kid.

He isn't much different from a run of the mill college kid. He just has a "startup style" website with gratuitous pictures of himself all over it. It's called "personal marketing." Apparently software engineers are supposed to do that nowadays - our code no longer speaks for itself.

code still speaks for itself. it just has to be framed and delivered to an audience. your side project that's sitting on your hard drive or even your unpublicized github account isn't doing you any good.

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

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Post by ranman »

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.

>"over the last 15 years"

Well in the past several years I've worked with a lot of developers and I care a lot about their github/bug tracker/public accounts. I don't care if there aren't a lot of repos or projects... just that they're active participants in software and CS. Github is a pretty good indicator of that. Bug trackers are another great indicator. Seeing someone rant about: 500 errors on a website, poor extensibility in an API/lib, unexpected CLI behavior -- those are good signs that the person cares about their chosen profession.

Coding is only one part of engineering. Being able to work with a team, recognize requirements, and ship are other important components. I find that engineers who have strong profiles on SO, github, bug trackers -- they tend to ship. They may not be the best coders in the world but from a business stand point that doesn't really matter. The best ideas in the world are useless if they never get shipped.

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

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Post by ranman »

silverbax88 wrote: post #178
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.

I promise you I can figure out if you can code or not in about 15 minutes. I don't mean cobble together Angular and Bootstrap. I need to figure out if you can actually code and what kind of person you are to work with.

Comments like this make me think that I never want to be interviewed by you. What do you think about going over code that someone has written previously and asking them questions about it? Do you ask the same coding questions every time?

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

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Post by learnstats2 »

juliangregorian wrote: post #75
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #59

Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version? http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Sorry dude! Nice site. Don't go for an internship though. You command an escalation of experience that opens doors to regular full time…

"steal" as if you never used someone else's code. There's not even a notice on the original, I'm hard pressed to find him at fault.

> There's not even a notice on the original

No license on the original means you don't have the right to use it.

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

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Post by poxrud »

hn_ wrote: post #166
nilkn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be completely honest and say that it makes me feel slightly awkward because it's a major component of the resume and yet is completely irrelevant for deciding if he's qualified or not. To me, it's distracting and actually makes me feel slightly pressured to cut him some slack because he put in extra effort on making the resume pretty. All that said, for someone who hasn't even started college yet, I think every…

I have to be honest here.... I review resumes and have a say in hiring decisions in my company. I would probably have a tendency to disregard this resume because of the picture. It is pretty distracting and frankly makes me uncomfortable. I don't wish to evaluate a candidate based on their looks but this one says "my looks are important to my job qualifications." Perhaps I'm old fashion and this is over the top but i…

I think it may be a cultural difference thing. In many parts of the world, including Eastern Europe it is common to provide your age and a photo on a resume.
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