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> no reasonable engineer that is asked to interview you will look at your github, or care if you have one. yeah gonna have to disagree on this. I'm an engineer
by stuff4ben 10y ago
> no reasonable engineer that is asked to interview you will look at your github, or care if you have one.
yeah gonna have to disagree on this. I'm an engineer and work for a BigCo Enterprisey company and while it's not necessary, if you have a GH account, it makes my job easier when I interview you. Of course if you write terrible code, then the GH account probably is not the best thing to have. But other than that, I can't see a reason why not to have one. If you have one, I definitely look at it and I consider engineers who have one higher than those that don't. Doesn't mean that I won't rate you favorably if you really know what you're talking about, but it doesn't hurt.
- chillaxtian 10y ago> But other than that, I can't see a reason why not to have one. you are assuming that * they want to write code outside of working hours * they will put the same level of attention into the code they write outside of work as they do the code they write at work * they want the code they write outside of work to be open source failing to do any or all of these things, or doing any or all of these things, should not affect a candidates impression on you.
- aianus 10y agoOf course it should. Do you really not see the difference between being able to look at someone's code and trying to guess what it might look like via lame whiteboard implementations of basic algorithms?
- humbleMouse 10y agoWell said "chillaxtian"!