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"It seems all developer positions these days require the following: 1) A link to your Github account 2) A link to your LinkedIn profile" 1) No 2) No

by CmonDev 13y ago

CmonDev 13y ago
"I know why companies have bought into the idea of Github profiles." - is it some sort of SF-cisco thing? It's not common in UK/Europe at all.
- robziehl 13y ago
  It seems to be a growing trend with the Valley startups but I have noticed some other companies on the East coast adopting the pattern. I can't really comment on the UK/Europe, I am based in Canada myself. Are there any sites that UK/European companies use instead of LinkedIn and Github? I'm genuinely curious.
- lmm 13y ago
  It's getting more so. Last time I was looking for a job (UK) a recruiter not only mentioned my github, but asked me to pass on another job offer to someone he'd noticed I was collaborating with.
  - robziehl 13y ago
    Oh wow, that's pretty interesting. Was the recruiter from a small company just trying to aggressively go after candidates or were they legitimately interested in you project? Not to undermine your work at all but it's the first time I have heard of an experience like this. Congrats!
    - lmm 13y ago
      Big recruitment agency. I think he'd heard the name of that specific guy rather than caring about what we'd actually been working on.
CmonDev 13y ago
"What Vim or Emacs plugins are they using to improve their process? Do they pop out of their text editor and type rdoc or pydoc into their shell? Do they fire up an interactive REPL with irb or python? ... asking them how many windows there are in San Francisco." They don't care about Vim and Emacs, they are not Python devs and they don't live in SF (talking about the other 90% of devs naturally).
- robziehl 13y ago
  That was just an example in my post. I used to do a lot of C programming in my spare time. My commonly used tools back then included splint, valgrind, gdb and man. Like I said, developers will find similar tools when the language they are coding in changes.

"It seems all developer positions these days require the following: 1) A link to your Github account 2) A link to your LinkedIn profile" 1) No 2) No

by CmonDev 13y ago

"It seems all developer positions these days require the following: 1) A link to your Github account 2) A link to your LinkedIn profile" 1) No 2) No

CmonDev 13y ago

"I know why companies have bought into the idea of Github profiles." - is it some sort of SF-cisco thing? It's not common in UK/Europe at all.

robziehl 13y ago
It seems to be a growing trend with the Valley startups but I have noticed some other companies on the East coast adopting the pattern. I can't really comment on the UK/Europe, I am based in Canada myself. Are there any sites that UK/European companies use instead of LinkedIn and Github? I'm genuinely curious.
lmm 13y ago
It's getting more so. Last time I was looking for a job (UK) a recruiter not only mentioned my github, but asked me to pass on another job offer to someone he'd noticed I was collaborating with.
- robziehl 13y ago
  Oh wow, that's pretty interesting. Was the recruiter from a small company just trying to aggressively go after candidates or were they legitimately interested in you project? Not to undermine your work at all but it's the first time I have heard of an experience like this. Congrats!
  - lmm 13y ago
    Big recruitment agency. I think he'd heard the name of that specific guy rather than caring about what we'd actually been working on.

CmonDev 13y ago

"What Vim or Emacs plugins are they using to improve their process? Do they pop out of their text editor and type rdoc or pydoc into their shell? Do they fire up an interactive REPL with irb or python? ... asking them how many windows there are in San Francisco." They don't care about Vim and Emacs, they are not Python devs and they don't live in SF (talking about the other 90% of devs naturally).

robziehl 13y ago
That was just an example in my post. I used to do a lot of C programming in my spare time. My commonly used tools back then included splint, valgrind, gdb and man. Like I said, developers will find similar tools when the language they are coding in changes.