4 ms·
> so there's almost nothing you can point to and say "I made that". Really? I'd hazard a guess that most of Hacker News could point to the websites and apps th
by CM30 8y ago
> so there's almost nothing you can point to and say "I made that".
Really? I'd hazard a guess that most of Hacker News could point to the websites and apps they made and say they made that. What else would be on a developer or software engineer's CV?
Same with many other white collar jobs. Designers and media creators/artists can easily point out what they've worked on, as can writers and journalists, or scientists or academics, etc.
- darpa_escapee 8y agoYou don't have examples of projects that live on an intranet, belong to a client, or make a thing "go" in an industry you'll never interact with? You've never worked on a project where you contributed a handful of pieces to a million piece puzzle, of which your contribution is nearly unnoticeable? And can you say "I made that" when legally, and in the eyes of most, SoftwareCompany Inc "made" it?
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> What else would be on a developer or software engineer's CV? Job roles and responsibilities. > most of Hacker News could point to the websites and apps they made and say they made that. Maybe I'm particularly bad at it. I list some projects I've made on my site, and I notice that they lean heavily towards my earlier days of programming - they're learning artifacts in various states of completion, and represent a small fraction of code I've written. Ever since joining the job market, I've made things I can't show off because they're internal to the workplace, or internal to internal customers, or simply I've contributed pieces of work all around the stack. Most code I write these days builds either something I don't own, can't present, or is just a small piece of the overall whole.