On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote: > On 12/18/2017 08:45 AM, Larry Martell wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >>> >>> However, one great way to stand out is a portfolio of GitHub projects. >>> Several people have gotten an offer largely based on those (after they >>> aced the technical interviews). For example, we just hired someone who >>> had written a game in sed. That doesn't make him an "interesting >>> person," nor do we look for game or sed developers. But that silly >>> exercise deeply resonated with our team. We expect to have great synergy >>> with him. >> >> >> I have been excluded from even getting an interview because I did not >> have a portfolio of GitHub projects. I think that is a bad filter. I >> work 60-70 hours a week for pay, and I have a family and personal >> interests. >> > > When I'm hiring I don't necessarily need a candidate to have an extensive > open-source portfolio, but I need to see some kind of portfolio, just as a > bar of "This is what I consider my good work to be." The idea that someone > is going to have years of experience, but not a single page of code that > they can let me look over always strikes me as odd.
I have lots of code and projects to show, but only on my computer. I once got a django/python job because I had a PHP app I did to show. But if they had not interviewed me because I had nothing on a public site they never would have seen it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
