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I don't think any company cares that much about your github. It almost always comes down to the interview. But programming in your free time will (likely) make
by staticassertion 7y ago
I don't think any company cares that much about your github. It almost always comes down to the interview.
But programming in your free time will (likely) make you more effective in your job, garner recognition/ place you in a programming community, teach you about new problem spaces, etc.
So while that may not help you move from job to job (I'd argue, however, that it does), it'll help you accelerate your career within a company.
I don't think it's contentious to say that practice will improve your skill, and improving your skill generally leads to a better (by some definition) career.
- ori_b 7y ago> I don't think any company cares that much about your github. It almost always comes down to the interview. Personally, I would weight a great GitHub more highly than an interview. But great GitHubs are very rare.
- staticassertion 7y agoSure, I would too. Interviews are mostly stupid. At small companies where you have more wild-west type procedures you can probably get away with saying "Github is good enough", but my experience is that even mid sized companies start to put all of their bags in the interview basket.
- solipsism 7y agoI would like to see evidence that, say, 10 hours a day (assuming 2 hours of free time programming) yields better results than 8. It's plausible, but it's not at all obvious.
- staticassertion 7y agoMe too. I can't say one way or the other, I can only speak to what I perceive in my career. I believe I've made it this far, in part at least, due to the extra hours I've put in. I believe I'm a much better programmer for it too. But I also put way more in than an extra 2 hours a day.