Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs

Post by hueving » Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

gear54rus wrote: post #37

Double_a_92 wrote: post #36

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Most dev jobs are still normal 8-5 jobs though... And pretty much none of my coworkers has an active github with breathtaking projects. I think we are in a bubble on those online communities here (online / startup / SV).

Neither do mine, I'm just looking from the other, recruiter's side (not USA, no family, web platform). What makes people think that recruiters have to give time to someone who is likely worse over someone who is likely better? We are free to allocate our time as we see fit, but we must also accept full responsibility for the consequences.

There is no correlation with open source and quality.

Post by fyfy18 » Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 9:13 AM UTC

hueving wrote: post #39

fyfy18 wrote: post #30

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As someone who has been in charge of recruiting developers, one of the hardest parts is deciding if someone is really any good. Your CV and who you’ve worked for doesn’t really say anything, even after chatting to you I don’t know whether the code you are writing is going to be good or not. So I can either get you to do a coding excercise (but who has time for that, especially when you may have three other offers alr…

>If you don’t even have that, well sorry, but I’m getting plenty of CVs through everyday. If you have a full supply of well qualified candidates, good for you because you are in the minority. However, most company's candidates are garbage and the last ones you want to lose are the ones with three competing offers. Tell them you need a code sample, don't make stupid decisions based on presence of a github profile if y…

Yes... that's my point. I want a code sample, but I'm not judging you based on whether you have a GitHub profile or not.

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