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I would love to talk about my github projects with an interviewer - hell, I'd also love to talk more about my past systems than their hypothetical ones - but li
by majormajor 3y ago
I would love to talk about my github projects with an interviewer - hell, I'd also love to talk more about my past systems than their hypothetical ones - but like the parent post, I've found it pretty rare. Past projects maybe 15% of the time at medium-to-large companies (500+ person), and so far am batting 0.000 for "asked about personal projects", including at FAANG interviews.
- liuliu 3y agoThe logic is twisted and strange, the justification sums up to this: talking past projects like talking to a PhD student about his research paper, it is all they does and doesn't put them in enough "foreign situation" to see their novel problem-solving abilities. OTOH, when you are hiring for leaders (directors and above), past experiences and behavior questions are all you talking about.
- majormajor 3y agoThat makes a certain about of sense but I think you can usually get a feel for project-by-project dissimilarities in someone's background and figure out if they've been doing the "1 year of experience for 10 years" or the "continually tackling new challenges and learning from them" path.