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I do a lot of interviews and I tell the interviewee that a github project with a clean commit history is worth the same or more then a college degree. Been burn

I do a lot of interviews and I tell the interviewee that a github project with a clean commit history is worth the same or more then a college degree. Been burned many times by people who can do tricky CS stuff but don't actually do anything on the job. It doesn't have to be a large project, just enough to show me you know the basics of source control work flow and also how to communicate.

vkou 10y ago
> just enough to show me you know the basics of source control work flow Does this really take that much time to teach on the job? I haven't used source control outside of work, but I had no problem figuring out CVS, SVN, SeaPine Surround SCM (What a flaming pile of crap), or Perforce. Likewise, I've never used a bug tracker before work, but figuring out Jira/Bugzilla/(Whatever garbage HP sells) is much easier then reversing a linked list... Or explaining the *Nix everything-is-a-file model - both of which are parts of the typical CS degree.