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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Mid Front end Devs". Do you mean not Jr and not Sr? I guess I wouldn't be quite sure how to express that either :| I've in

by wwalser 10y ago

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Mid Front end Devs". Do you mean not Jr and not Sr? I guess I wouldn't be quite sure how to express that either :| I've interviewed tons of front end devs, all for product companies whose candidates are fairly different to an agency (agencies candidates with personal portfolios are likely more common). Having a portfolio at all is rare. Most anything that shows that you're active in your craft will be a plus. Github profiles are common but honestly they, on average, show near-zero public activity. Obviously there are outliers who are active in open source but my own experience shows that even very good senior devs at well-funded startups don't have much time for open source except in the rare case where a specific OS tool becomes core to their employment. Seriously, anything that shows that you used time outside of work to create things is a plus.

rex-mundi 10y ago
Yep, I meant between Jr & Sr, I wanted to use Midlevel but but I had to keep the title short for hn 80 char limit Thanks for answer, that's a real help, all the postings I've been looking at ask for github url & examples of work so I thought not having anything was abnormal
- wwalser 10y ago
  Well, if you can look someone's portfolio up online then, by default, they have a portfolio. What you're not getting from that type of search is the thousands of people who don't have a portfolio online. Here's my github url: https://github.com/wwalser https://github.com/wwalser That shows very little public activity. However, even that amount would be impressive to me if I saw it from a candidate. The reason is that, when interviewing a someone from a product company, I implicitly understand that they are going to have thousands of lines of code written for a private company (and therefore not publicly available). In my case http://askinline.com http://askinline.com is that work. Hope that perspective is helpful.

by wwalser 10y ago

rex-mundi 10y ago

Yep, I meant between Jr & Sr, I wanted to use Midlevel but but I had to keep the title short for hn 80 char limit Thanks for answer, that's a real help, all the postings I've been looking at ask for github url & examples of work so I thought not having anything was abnormal

wwalser 10y ago
Well, if you can look someone's portfolio up online then, by default, they have a portfolio. What you're not getting from that type of search is the thousands of people who don't have a portfolio online. Here's my github url: https://github.com/wwalser https://github.com/wwalser That shows very little public activity. However, even that amount would be impressive to me if I saw it from a candidate. The reason is that, when interviewing a someone from a product company, I implicitly understand that they are going to have thousands of lines of code written for a private company (and therefore not publicly available). In my case http://askinline.com http://askinline.com is that work. Hope that perspective is helpful.