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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…
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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.
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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.
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I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.
Probably lots of people are like you. I think the world is changing, though, and I think it is instructive to note that the person complaining about the lack of Github content is 20 years old. I've read hundreds of CVs for web developers in the last 2 years and I could point to only a handful that didn't include some kind of reference to a portfolio (usually on Github). Even though you say that you don't care about a…
Of course in many cases you can't just publish internal code from your place of work but a lot seem to also include clauses that claim ownership of anything you do outside of work too. Personally speaking that's why my own github account is full of tumbleweeds anyway
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Before you write your own book, I would recommend taking an assessment of the number of books that are already out there and really making sure that you have something to say that isn't already being written about. 99% of books are trash. Don't write one unless you know it will help someone better than all those already existing books would.
Do you live in a fairy world? The point of writing and publishing books is TO MAKE MONEY. Nobody cares about your opinions.
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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.
Well, I have a pretty good github profile https://github.com/apsdehal but I still had a hard time finding intern this year. So I would say most of the github profile doesn't matter much, but it sure makes you look impressive. Also as far as I have experienced, if you apply in big companies, nothing matters for internship, only thing you should know is competitive programming.
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Out of the 120 developers where I work, about 5 have active github accounts. Hiring based on github is ridiculous.
Agreed! If a developer has a github account, then they're thinking about some other programming thing on the job instead of the cruddy stuff they're being paid to do.
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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?
I would question you on the specific things YOU wrote and how YOU would solve problems.