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IME, most companies generally don't care about Github or your blog, but _some_ companies that are heavily involved in on FOSS or OSS, do care and hire contribut

IME, most companies generally don't care about Github or your blog, but _some_ companies that are heavily involved in on FOSS or OSS, do care and hire contributors.

BossingAround 3y ago
Even for companies like Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Mongo, ..., my experience is that a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview. Of course, it might happen that they'd hire contributors, as you say. I'd say this is incredibly rare (but does happen). Usually, from my experience, this happens when the company wants to essentially "acquire" the code (and sometimes, the contributor is hired as a contractor for a couple months).
- CapricornNoble 3y ago
  >a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview But it may contribute to you getting an interview in the first place, no?
  - BossingAround 3y ago
    Weeeell.. I mean, look, anything's possible, but if the CV looks kinda meh but the candidate has a good blog, would that get them an invite? I'm not so sure.
- rewmie 3y ago
  > (...) my experience is that a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview. A few years ago I was offered a job explicitly because I had a github account where I hosted a public project that used a framework. Later, I was the recruiter in a few hiring rounds, and public source code repos was my primary source of data to assess q candidate. If a candidate had shit code in their repos, they'd be rejected. By "shit code" I mean a candidate for a senior software engineer for a C++ project showed up his GitHub project as his C++ portfolio, and all he had for show was a project that didn't even used include guards.
  - thom 3y ago
    As in, not even #pragma once, or you consider nonstandard stuff disqualifying?
    - rewmie 3y ago
      Not even a #pragma once. It was a bundle of declarations that included duplicate definitions on each source file. The candidate then expected stuff to remain consistent by updating all declarations.
  - BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
    There are exceptionally talented, successful, high-profile software developers with incomplete & unpolished exploratory projects on their GitHub. It's surprising that you would take pride in using this as a basis to disqualify.
    - rewmie 3y ago
      > There are exceptionally talented, successful, high-profile software developers with incomplete & unpolished exploratory projects on their GitHub. If you intentionally put up your GitHub page in your resume and all you have is "incomplete and unpolished exploratory projects", that's how you're choosing to present yourself. Also, the degree of "unpolished ness" actually attests to the skillet you bring to the table. If the "exploratory projects" you choose to showcase as your portfolio are ungodly messes, you should not be surprised they reflect poorly on you. > It's surprising that you would take pride in using this as a basis to disqualify. I know for a fact that public GitHub repositories explicitly presented by candidates as their technical portfolio is an accurate reflection of their skillet. I am certain of this fact because I never used personal source code repos to exclude candidates but to guide the interview, and each and every single candidate I interviewed that published crap in their portfolio was lacking absolute basic competencies in the domain they showcased. Do you have any data to refute this? I really don't understand how anyone in this day and age is surprised that the way you present yourself in a CV or even online, specially in professional venues, has an impact on your hireability.
vidarh 3y ago
They may not care about it much, but for me it's at least been helpful in having prospective employers waive coding tests on several occasions. How they interact with it (e.g. whether they ask me any questions that suggests they've at least taken a look) also acts as a strong signal to me about whether or not it's somewhere I'm likely to be happy. So it may be worth putting it on your CV anyway.

IME, most companies generally don't care about Github or your blog, but _some_ companies that are heavily involved in on FOSS or OSS, do care and hire contributors.

BossingAround 3y ago

Even for companies like Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Mongo, ..., my experience is that a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview. Of course, it might happen that they'd hire contributors, as you say. I'd say this is incredibly rare (but does happen). Usually, from my experience, this happens when the company wants to essentially "acquire" the code (and sometimes, the contributor is hired as a contractor for a couple months).

CapricornNoble 3y ago
>a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview But it may contribute to you getting an interview in the first place, no?
- BossingAround 3y ago
  Weeeell.. I mean, look, anything's possible, but if the CV looks kinda meh but the candidate has a good blog, would that get them an invite? I'm not so sure.
rewmie 3y ago
> (...) my experience is that a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview. A few years ago I was offered a job explicitly because I had a github account where I hosted a public project that used a framework. Later, I was the recruiter in a few hiring rounds, and public source code repos was my primary source of data to assess q candidate. If a candidate had shit code in their repos, they'd be rejected. By "shit code" I mean a candidate for a senior software engineer for a C++ project showed up his GitHub project as his C++ portfolio, and all he had for show was a project that didn't even used include guards.
- thom 3y ago
  As in, not even #pragma once, or you consider nonstandard stuff disqualifying?
  - rewmie 3y ago
    Not even a #pragma once. It was a bundle of declarations that included duplicate definitions on each source file. The candidate then expected stuff to remain consistent by updating all declarations.
- BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
  There are exceptionally talented, successful, high-profile software developers with incomplete & unpolished exploratory projects on their GitHub. It's surprising that you would take pride in using this as a basis to disqualify.
  - rewmie 3y ago
    > There are exceptionally talented, successful, high-profile software developers with incomplete & unpolished exploratory projects on their GitHub. If you intentionally put up your GitHub page in your resume and all you have is "incomplete and unpolished exploratory projects", that's how you're choosing to present yourself. Also, the degree of "unpolished ness" actually attests to the skillet you bring to the table. If the "exploratory projects" you choose to showcase as your portfolio are ungodly messes, you should not be surprised they reflect poorly on you. > It's surprising that you would take pride in using this as a basis to disqualify. I know for a fact that public GitHub repositories explicitly presented by candidates as their technical portfolio is an accurate reflection of their skillet. I am certain of this fact because I never used personal source code repos to exclude candidates but to guide the interview, and each and every single candidate I interviewed that published crap in their portfolio was lacking absolute basic competencies in the domain they showcased. Do you have any data to refute this? I really don't understand how anyone in this day and age is surprised that the way you present yourself in a CV or even online, specially in professional venues, has an impact on your hireability.

vidarh 3y ago

They may not care about it much, but for me it's at least been helpful in having prospective employers waive coding tests on several occasions. How they interact with it (e.g. whether they ask me any questions that suggests they've at least taken a look) also acts as a strong signal to me about whether or not it's somewhere I'm likely to be happy. So it may be worth putting it on your CV anyway.