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> But someone with an active open source project on github and a popular blog seems like an easy interview, but I've never had the opportunity to speak with any
by autarch 4y ago
> But someone with an active open source project on github and a popular blog seems like an easy interview, but I've never had the opportunity to speak with anyone like that.
I have many thousands (tens, definitely; hundreds, maybe) of lines of code I've written on GitHub. I also have a blog (not sure I'd call it popular though). In my recent interviews (which I blogged about at length) I don't think _anyone_ had looked at my repos on GitHub. Certainly no one asked questions about those projects. A few had read my blog, however.
A couple times I did show them some of my work on GitHub, primarily a project I was working on at the time that had a UI I could screen share.
- yata69420 4y agoI just read a few of your blog posts and I'm sure you'll be hired quickly. Easy to see that you're an old perl hacker that's now into rust and you're active in community stuff that matters (LWN, CPAN). I feel like you might over-share on your blog in a way that could turn off potential employers, but those are companies you wouldn't want to work for anyway. I get the vibe you might be opinionated and risky, but are clearly technically competent. I'd probably put you in a team with other rust-enthusiasts for maximum success. You're likely to inspire newer developers. You might want to take HTML/CSS/JS off your resume because JS pretty much means React/Vue/Angular these days and you don't seem too interested in that stuff. That's the sort of stuff I'd check about you before the interview. Good luck!
- autarch 4y agoThanks for the kind words. I ended up at MongoDB and I've been there about 7 weeks now. I don't think my blog posts had too much of an impact on my offers, although of course I guess some places could've just said no and not told me why.