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Hey nerd, I'm a developer in Vancouver too. To answer your question, I got started through a close connection. GitHub has generated several leads for me too.

by iLoch 10y ago

Hey nerd, I'm a developer in Vancouver too. To answer your question, I got started through a close connection. GitHub has generated several leads for me too. Want me to have a look at your resume? There might be something you can improve that's causing you to not receive calls back (might just be bad luck!). I'm no expert in resumes though. We're always looking for people to hire if we think they're a good fit. Send me an email: lochlan (at) workatplay (dot) com

pmiller2 10y ago
What do you have on Github that's actually getting you job leads?
- joeld42 10y ago
  Stars.
- iLoch 10y ago
  Nothing super interesting, have a look if you like: @lwansbrough
dominotw 10y ago
>GitHub has generated several leads for me too. I 've had recruiters say the generic line ' I am impressed with your projects on github' , I am sure none of them actually looked at my github. But in your case looks like it was not some random recruiter? This would be my ideal way to find a job, I would always choose this over stupid whiteboard interviews.
- mikekchar 10y ago
  I'm not the OP, but my portfolio and side projects have outright given me jobs before. Quite a long time ago I had a small project done in Java, but I built an XML file format for tracking all my stories, and an XSLT script for generating a burn down chart, calculating velocity, etc, etc. OK... XML and XSLT... I said it was a long time ago ;-). I provided a link to the Java code as proof that I could do some basic Java/Swing stuff, but everybody who saw it commented on the simple project tracking. In the end it got me a job with a small group who were having difficulty with that kind of stuff. What I find interesting is that if you look at my projects on Github, they are not particularly well written and my portfolio/blog is almost cringe-worthy in how pompous it is. But I think that the fact that I'm always dabbling in something and experimenting says something about me as a programmer. If I had to do another interview, I think I might point them to this: http://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ http://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ It's me implementing core wars, one pomodoro a day (got up to 65 pomodoros before I got side tracked on something else). It's nothing special. There are lots of problems with the code I wrote and I did lots of stupid things. But it's an honest exposition of how I write code. I recorded everything with asciinema and if you increase the speed 3 times you can watch a pomodoro in about 5 minutes. I should actually get back to that project because it was really quite a lot of fun :-)
  - dominotw 10y ago
    Those katas are awesome, great job recording it. I love pomodoro technique .
- iLoch 10y ago
  One lead came from a lead developer who came across my stuff which was highly relevant to what they were working on. Still wanted coding tests done though.

by iLoch 10y ago

pmiller2 10y ago

What do you have on Github that's actually getting you job leads?

joeld42 10y ago
Stars.
iLoch 10y ago
Nothing super interesting, have a look if you like: @lwansbrough

dominotw 10y ago

>GitHub has generated several leads for me too. I 've had recruiters say the generic line ' I am impressed with your projects on github' , I am sure none of them actually looked at my github. But in your case looks like it was not some random recruiter? This would be my ideal way to find a job, I would always choose this over stupid whiteboard interviews.

mikekchar 10y ago
I'm not the OP, but my portfolio and side projects have outright given me jobs before. Quite a long time ago I had a small project done in Java, but I built an XML file format for tracking all my stories, and an XSLT script for generating a burn down chart, calculating velocity, etc, etc. OK... XML and XSLT... I said it was a long time ago ;-). I provided a link to the Java code as proof that I could do some basic Java/Swing stuff, but everybody who saw it commented on the simple project tracking. In the end it got me a job with a small group who were having difficulty with that kind of stuff. What I find interesting is that if you look at my projects on Github, they are not particularly well written and my portfolio/blog is almost cringe-worthy in how pompous it is. But I think that the fact that I'm always dabbling in something and experimenting says something about me as a programmer. If I had to do another interview, I think I might point them to this: http://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ http://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ It's me implementing core wars, one pomodoro a day (got up to 65 pomodoros before I got side tracked on something else). It's nothing special. There are lots of problems with the code I wrote and I did lots of stupid things. But it's an honest exposition of how I write code. I recorded everything with asciinema and if you increase the speed 3 times you can watch a pomodoro in about 5 minutes. I should actually get back to that project because it was really quite a lot of fun :-)
- dominotw 10y ago
  Those katas are awesome, great job recording it. I love pomodoro technique .
iLoch 10y ago
One lead came from a lead developer who came across my stuff which was highly relevant to what they were working on. Still wanted coding tests done though.