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0 pointsBoysenberryPi8y ago0 comments

Github is already essentially Linkedin for developers.

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paulie_a8y ago· 3 in thread

Except GitHub doesn't steal your contact list and then send fraudulent notifications to them like LinkedIn does.

fake-name8y ago

Well, github doesn't.

I have had assholes scrape my commits for the commit e-mail address, and spam me already.

Give it time.

MaulingMonkey8y ago

Happened to me too. Told me to email them back to "unsubscribe", which of course didn't work. They train my spam filters now.

bradknowles8y ago

So far.

Let's see how long that lasts.

hueving8y ago· 3 in thread

Maybe for junior devs to get their foot in the door, but not for any higher level positions. You can't tell very much about someone's engineering skills based on some public commits to a side project and very few people (<1%) are writing open source professionally.

dvtrn8y ago

I wished more recruiters got this. The bulk of many professional's work i would imagine is deemed proprietary company property and not everyone really has the life that affords them the time to commit frequently to someone else's pet project repository because we have kids and families that soak up that time.

"Do you have a GitHub profile?" Is a question thats making me raise an eyebrow more and more lately, what if I don't? What's that say about me that I'm not constantly constantly distributing my code to everyone else via public repositories?

Yes I have a github profile but all you're going to find is a Jekyll site where I blog about model airplanes and geek off about air traffic control chatter. Doubt that's very interesting content for a guy who works in fintech

fyfy188y ago

As someone who has been in charge of recruiting developers, one of the hardest parts is deciding if someone is really any good. Your CV and who you’ve worked for doesn’t really say anything, even after chatting to you I don’t know whether the code you are writing is going to be good or not.

So I can either get you to do a coding excercise (but who has time for that, especially when you may have three other offers already) or I can ask for a sample of your code. When I ask candidates if they have a GitHub profile, I ask because that’s where most people have samples of code they’ve worked on. If you don’t, just tell me and send me a zip of some code so I can see how you actually write code.

If you don’t even have that, well sorry, but I’m getting plenty of CVs through everyday.

It also works the other way, maybe you aren’t good at interviews but you know you are a good developer. List on your CV some of your interesting projects with GitHub links (or put “code available on request”).

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gear54rus8y ago

> what if I don't?

god I hope this is exaggerated lol.

Filthy recruiter, how can they even ask such a question. How dare they ask whether I make tech world better outside my job. Muh keeds, muh family.

> my code

The one that is built on titanic effort of others not all of which was compensated in any way at all?

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tmpz228y ago

Yea but unlike LinkedIn people don't put their entire resume and a litany of other personal info on the front page. Yes your resume website might be in your github, but the exposure is much more intentional.

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