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> In fact, to be honest, having public repos is more likely to push me to rule someone out rather than arrange a chat. That sounds like a good thing? Looking
by colonwqbang 4y ago
> In fact, to be honest, having public repos is more likely to push me to rule someone out rather than arrange a chat.
That sounds like a good thing? Looking at the quality of someone's public work lets you rule out more candidates who are not a good fit.
- dijit 4y agoThe quality of my GitHub profile does not in any way reflect the quality of the proprietary work I do. A great example is the projects I do to learn things or for fun; such as this awful ruby port of a BBC Basic game from the 80s which does _nothing_ the right way: https://github.com/dijit/SpyQTest-rb/blob/master/spyqtest.rb https://github.com/dijit/SpyQTest-rb/blob/master/spyqtest.rb The constraints are fewer on side projects, the motivations are not the same. I am not certain that I'm amazing at my job, I'm definitely decent enough to be employed for 15~ years, but the gulf that exists between my GitHub repos and code I write for my employer is extreme enough that I'm relatively certain that if I was judged on my GitHub profile alone I would not get jobs; and if my proprietary code were open it would lead to jobs.. so *shrug*