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How many people can look at a github project and tell how good a coder you are, how well you work with others, what sort of team you mesh well with, what industries you've worked in and so on? And how many of those people are the ones making hiring choices?
These arguments that the only worthy developers have tons of public facing open source projects are tiresome. Probably less than 1% of developers have GitHub repos and there's no correlation between skill level and having a GitHub repo. If you have extensive and current open source contributions, for most people it means you're unemployed, or you're violating your employer's contract terms. Evaluating a GitHub repo f…
> Probably less than 1% of developers have GitHub repos And if you count Google Code, Bitbucket, Sourceforge? Github alone has "2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories". What's your source for your statistic? > When all of your work is online, it suggests you are not spending much time contributing value to whoever is employing you. Or that you enjoy writing code so much that you do it in your free ti…
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You'd be dead wrong about that. I spent the first 10 years of my career watching MCSE after MCSE consistently mismanage all manner of network and server infrastructure, frequently having to go behind them and clean up their mess. Item the 2nd: haven't seen Mad Men, couldn't say.
That doesn't mean anything, you could have worked for a contracting company that only dealt with acute problems where MCSEs just happened to be involved, i.e. selection bias.