What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp

Re:What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs af... by pbhjpbhj on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:53PM (#13008024)

I thought it showed on the page if a project was forked; perhaps it makes fraud possible but wouldn't it be spotted almost immediately when you started work, if it wasn't spotted then arguably it doesn't matter.

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Re:What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs af... by Bartweiss on Monday November 21, 2016 @02:33PM (#13008404)

"Almost immediately when you started work" is precisely too late, though. If you hire purely off GitHub and get someone who lifted their code (instead of forking it), that's a huge price.

Bad hires inflict huge costs up front, in wasted interview opportunities and startup costs and lost training time and morale hits and a dozen other things. "Fire fast" is popular advice because it's better than firing slow, not because unsuccessful hires are a sustainable event.

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Re:What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs af... by tjalfi on Monday November 21, 2016 @08:03PM (#13010763)

Forks of GitHub repositories are marked as such, forks of projects hosted on other sites are not.

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