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The number of prospective employers that will actually pull up your github / portfolio project website / etc (let alone read it) is not especially different fro

The number of prospective employers that will actually pull up your github / portfolio project website / etc (let alone read it) is not especially different from zero. It's important to have stories to tell during an interview, but getting the interview is the hard part.

scrollaway 8y ago
Getting an interview when you have a consequent Github portfolio is very easy. Prospective employers not only do actually pull up your github profile, many of them will find you because of it. As an aside, writing this makes me realize how successful Github has been at implementing their motto of "social coding" when none of us had any idea wtf that could actually mean or look like.
- timdellinger 8y ago
  I'd be interested in the numbers on this. To get a rough number, I typed "data scientist" "San Francisco, CA" into indeed.com and it's reporting 2,832 job listings. So of those 2,832 openings that companies are trying to fill, how many employers are out actively recruiting candidates based on their github profiles? It seems to me that Github / social coding is an interesting mix of networking (the social kind) and coding (which demonstrates abilities), but like most networking, it's only one of many ways into the door, and it's unclear how many of the 2,832 positions will be filled via that particular flavor of networking. My guess is that it's the minority.
jonahx 8y ago
This is false at the company I work for now (an large enterprise) and was false when I was hiring for my startup.
- timdellinger 8y ago
  I'd be curious to hear your experiences hiring - I've been on the hiring side in the chemical industry, but not in data science. Let's say that the funnel of applicants for one position starts with 250 resumes. How do you proceed? Among the applicants with github profiles, are all of the github profiles looked at?

scrollaway 8y ago

Getting an interview when you have a consequent Github portfolio is very easy. Prospective employers not only do actually pull up your github profile, many of them will find you because of it. As an aside, writing this makes me realize how successful Github has been at implementing their motto of "social coding" when none of us had any idea wtf that could actually mean or look like.

timdellinger 8y ago
I'd be interested in the numbers on this. To get a rough number, I typed "data scientist" "San Francisco, CA" into indeed.com and it's reporting 2,832 job listings. So of those 2,832 openings that companies are trying to fill, how many employers are out actively recruiting candidates based on their github profiles? It seems to me that Github / social coding is an interesting mix of networking (the social kind) and coding (which demonstrates abilities), but like most networking, it's only one of many ways into the door, and it's unclear how many of the 2,832 positions will be filled via that particular flavor of networking. My guess is that it's the minority.

jonahx 8y ago

This is false at the company I work for now (an large enterprise) and was false when I was hiring for my startup.

timdellinger 8y ago
I'd be curious to hear your experiences hiring - I've been on the hiring side in the chemical industry, but not in data science. Let's say that the funnel of applicants for one position starts with 250 resumes. How do you proceed? Among the applicants with github profiles, are all of the github profiles looked at?