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Speaking as someone involved in a hiring team for a developer, I am happy to discard people who are not demonstrating ability if I have other people who are. I
by pnathan 15y ago
Speaking as someone involved in a hiring team for a developer, I am happy to discard people who are not demonstrating ability if I have other people who are. I am looking for every possible signal that differentiates candidates. Don't shoot yourself in the foot by not differentiating yourself.
Github demonstrates knowledge of (1) current trends in open source, (2) using source control, and (3) a project that can be looked over.
(Substitute github with bitbucket or whatever, I don't care that much).
With respect to engineers who are under restrictive IP contracts, all I can say is I'm sorry. You are likely to be shown up by others who demonstrate skills in ways you are unable (by contract) to. Do your best to leave and find a place where you can demonstrate your awesome.
- jebblue 15y ago>>Do your best to leave and find a place where you can demonstrate your awesome. Not your, you're, it's a contraction, knowing the distinction shows you're skills are awesome.
- jbri 15y agoI am unsure if you're being ironic, but the grandparent did use "your" correctly - if you take "awesome" as a thing someone possesses rather than as an adjective.
- jebblue 15y agoPossessing an awesome would be ironic because it would be so awesome.
- pnathan 15y agoI meant the 'awesome belonging to you'. It's what I want to see when I look at your job application materials. If you don't have any, or can't show it, I can't appreciate that you are awesome and therefore won't follow up to talk with you.
- caw 15y agoI suppose that means for people who have restrictive agreements, networking and good CV skills are more important. If you don't have a github (or whatever online presence is being sought after), you'll lean more heavily on places that use a CV, or through your network. Getting in through a network probably means you don't need the github. Conversely, if you have an awesome github and an awesome network, then the fact you have a github is moot (unless people only know you because of it). You'll get hired anyway. So the github only really matters for the portion of people who don't have a network, and are applying for companies who care about code they can review before you even talk to them, which is mostly the HN bubble, and not any megacorps.
- pnathan 15y agoYou might say I'm in the HN bubble (I am, after all, reading it), but I work at a midsize corp growing towards megacorp, and github is a bonus to your resume here, especially with the more outward looking engineers.