Re:I have no side code projects to show you
by always_good on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:12PM
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> the Duds can fork github projects too
Sounds like a boogeyman.
Since you can see right there in Github's UI that something is a fork and that they are not the main contributor to the project, the dishonest applicant would have to go through some trouble to fake it as a sideproject.
The same dishonest person can also just lie about their work history.
You do not get to see people who get stuff done- you get to see people who optimized their "work"-life for the impression of getting stuff done.
Not beeing ready to pour unreasonable hours in- actually is a good sign. Such a person values his/her time- and thus will think on there own, for example when handed ridiculous feature requests. Such a person will stand up to me, and ask questions that might save month of development time sunk into unnecessary work.
Sorry, but we are not building the pyramids here. We are making software- and for that a lazy-loading brain with a clever work-avoidance Algorithm, in a un-passionate mercenary can be very effective as a development tool.