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Employers that don't look at GitHub and Stack Overflow activity when hiring are being silly. Unfortunately, it's the status quo. I mean, I actually wrote a book

by dvt 7y ago

Employers that don't look at GitHub and Stack Overflow activity when hiring are being silly. Unfortunately, it's the status quo. I mean, I actually wrote a book published by Apress that rarely gets brought up in interviews.

shantly 7y ago
I once interviewed a guy who listed an academic paper on his résumé. I skimmed the paper, and asked him a soft question about it in the interview (I was just curious about some non-essential detail). He looked surprised said no-one had ever mentioned it before (and answered my question just fine, of course).
jonathankoren 7y ago
As a hiring manager, I rarely look at GitHub and never look at Stack Overflow or Kaggle, or whatever. All these tell me is that you don’t have any hobbies outside of coding. As for GitHub in particular, it let’s me know if your project was something substantial, or merely an exercise for a class. GitHub, your book, all that stuff takes time and effort to read, and quite frankly it isn’t worth it. You’re still going to need to go through the interview process so I can figure out if you’re competent. Reading some 1000 line random GitHub repo is hard, and it’s just not worth it.
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turk73 7y ago
Too bad my company's private Github isn't visible to you because if you looked at my public one you would probably be disappointed even though I have been forcing myself to add code examples to it just to show some external effort. Internally, I'm a machine. Also, the problem I had being an SO contributor is that my answers would get downvoted months or years later not because they were incorrect at the time I posted but well along after versions and techniques changed. That's just assholic at it happened a number of times. Thanks, whoever did those drive-by downvotes, you're a complete ass and drove me from wanting to contribute at all.

by dvt 7y ago

shantly 7y ago

I once interviewed a guy who listed an academic paper on his résumé. I skimmed the paper, and asked him a soft question about it in the interview (I was just curious about some non-essential detail). He looked surprised said no-one had ever mentioned it before (and answered my question just fine, of course).

jonathankoren 7y ago

As a hiring manager, I rarely look at GitHub and never look at Stack Overflow or Kaggle, or whatever. All these tell me is that you don’t have any hobbies outside of coding. As for GitHub in particular, it let’s me know if your project was something substantial, or merely an exercise for a class. GitHub, your book, all that stuff takes time and effort to read, and quite frankly it isn’t worth it. You’re still going to need to go through the interview process so I can figure out if you’re competent. Reading some 1000 line random GitHub repo is hard, and it’s just not worth it.

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turk73 7y ago

Too bad my company's private Github isn't visible to you because if you looked at my public one you would probably be disappointed even though I have been forcing myself to add code examples to it just to show some external effort. Internally, I'm a machine. Also, the problem I had being an SO contributor is that my answers would get downvoted months or years later not because they were incorrect at the time I posted but well along after versions and techniques changed. That's just assholic at it happened a number of times. Thanks, whoever did those drive-by downvotes, you're a complete ass and drove me from wanting to contribute at all.