I can speak from my own experiences reviewing engineering candidates. Sometimes when you see someone's resume and they have great work accomplishments, like "l

I can speak from my own experiences reviewing engineering candidates. Sometimes when you see someone's resume and they have great work accomplishments, like "last 4 years at [successful, engineering focused company], building their [product everyone knows about] platform", it makes deciding to interview that person fairly easy. However, there is that issue when someone is either just starting out from college, who doesn't have a lot of work experience or who hasn't had the best of work experiences (usually not their fault). For these people the main thing that I look for and try to evaluate is their ability to learn on their own. The main thing to consider when reviewing a candidate like that is, if they aren't as up to speed on the technology we need them to, how long do I think it will take to on-board them and get them self-sufficient on our platform. If someone does not have the best resume, but their Github profile is full of projects, even half finished projects, of them trying out different languages or frameworks or maybe making (or trying to make) contributions to open source, it usually makes it easier to say "lets give them a chance," especially if they have been playing around with the languages/frameworks we use. Hope that helps answer your question.