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Maybe you should interview and find out why people do this. I have been coding for 10 years professionally, started coding in middle school and high school comp
by justanorherhack 4y ago
Maybe you should interview and find out why people do this. I have been coding for 10 years professionally, started coding in middle school and high school competitively. I live and breathe tech because I love it. Yet to work at all the nice companies I have to be able to identify an a problem pattern and implement an ‘optimal’ algorithm twice in an hour or it doesn’t matter.
Also what constitutes an awesome GitHub? Because unless you run a project with > 100 stars it’s little more than academic and doesn’t matter.
- tinco 4y agoOne to three passion projects, doesn't matter what amount of stars. Some practice projects in new technologies. Some contributions to large open source projects. If you tick all three boxes there, in my opinion your GitHub account is awesome. Instead of me having to come up with questions to gauge your competence, we'll instead be talking about what's on your github, making you more at ease, and giving me a better sense of your real world interests and competences. It's a win for both of us. At my current company I'll probably pay less than half as what you'd make at a "nice" company though, so maybe you won't interview with me anyway.
- rsaarsoo 4y agoI've got multiple >1000 star projects on GitHub, and I feel like it hardly matters at all. I'm still being asked to do lots of trivial coding exercises during the interviews. A large percentage of code I've ever written is out there in the open, but somehow it's still not enough to verify that I'm able to reverse a string. Thankfully, where I live, most companies don't really ask for hard-core algorithm questions - if they did, I would never get a job, as I really suck at these.