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I think you have to show that you can learn new things. How else can someone justify hiring someone if they haven't demonstrated that they're capable of picking

I think you have to show that you can learn new things. How else can someone justify hiring someone if they haven't demonstrated that they're capable of picking up a new piece of technology? I was trying to say that I wanted to show my value by producing actual things rather than being able to write code on paper. It's also funny that you mentioned Angular since I wrote launched a little app using it today.

vinceguidry 13y ago
> How else can someone justify hiring someone if they haven't demonstrated that they're capable of picking up a new piece of technology? Demonstrations are nice, but you're generally not going to get the chance to. I interviewed four times in the past year for jobs and got three offers, and I'd have gotten an offer on the fourth if I'd shown more interest in the position. The people interviewing me never took more than a glancing look at my portfolio website. I've never written code on paper. I've never had to live code. It's only very few pure-software shops that do things like that. Chances are you'll be interviewing at banks, or marketing companies, or at any of the vast majority of coding jobs that aren't supporting businesses in the technology sector. The people that run these businesses don't care half as much about technical chops. They do want to know if you can do your job, but in the non-technology world, attitude is more important.