Re:Ask HN: Employers of Mid Front end Devs, whats the min yo...
by rex-mundi on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:25AM
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Yep, I meant between Jr & Sr, I wanted to use Midlevel but but I had to keep the title short for hn 80 char limit
Thanks for answer, that's a real help, all the postings I've been looking at ask for github url & examples of work so I thought not having anything was abnormal
Re:Ask HN: Employers of Mid Front end Devs, whats the min yo...
by wwalser on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:52AM
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Well, if you can look someone's portfolio up online then, by default, they have a portfolio. What you're not getting from that type of search is the thousands of people who don't have a portfolio online.
Here's my github url: https://github.com/wwalser
That shows very little public activity. However, even that amount would be impressive to me if I saw it from a candidate. The reason is that, when interviewing a someone from a product company, I implicitly understand that they are going to have thousands of lines of code written for a private company (and therefore not publicly available). In my case http://askinline.com is that work.
Hope that perspective is helpful.
I've interviewed tons of front end devs, all for product companies whose candidates are fairly different to an agency (agencies candidates with personal portfolios are likely more common). Having a portfolio at all is rare. Most anything that shows that you're active in your craft will be a plus. Github profiles are common but honestly they, on average, show near-zero public activity. Obviously there are outliers who are active in open source but my own experience shows that even very good senior devs at well-funded startups don't have much time for open source except in the rare case where a specific OS tool becomes core to their employment.
Seriously, anything that shows that you used time outside of work to create things is a plus.