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Would he have made it past your recruiter screen though?
by jf 2y ago
Would he have made it past your recruiter screen though?
- SXX 2y agoA lot of people who have a gap between jobs for 1-2 years because they worked on their insane projects certainly wouldn't.
- soulofmischief 2y agoPeople are allowed to not work when they please, and you should avoid any employer who perceives self-indulgence and self-sufficiency as a red flag.
- SXX 2y agoUnfortunately I feel like recruiters at larger companies are squinting at CVs and think like: "Open source? Entrepreneur? Eh, oh. Smell of despair and discarded pizza boxes.". Of course unless your passion project is very successful one, but majority of them are not.
- zelon88 2y agoWhile I agree with the sentiment you are delivering, I think successful is probably the wrong word here. I worked on a repo for several years with many tens of thousands of lines of code and attempted to promote it heavily with little success. At some point I chopped out about 2,500 lines of code from that repo and packaged just one feature as a standalone product. Years later the child repo has thousands of users and the parent has barely any. While I consider both projects to be successful by definition, if I'm going to briefly showcase one over the other I'll showcase the smaller project that received more engagement. Because the engagement metrics do indeed matter. It lends credence and legitimacy to a project.
- turnsout 2y agoAnd would he have even bothered to apply, given the boring-sounding, narrowly worded JDs that get posted?