It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)

Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by matttb on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:37PM (#23209382)

Since there are comments refuting you, I'll provide an anecdote the other way. My coworkers absolutely do this to every single potential interviewee.

On multiple occasions I've had to talk them out of not wanting to even interview based on one random file in a random repo by the interviewee.

Because of this, when I start applying I hide all my repos that I'm not mostly proud of.

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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by renewiltord on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:24AM (#23210297)

Haha, admirable but I love employers like that. When they proactively remove themselves from the process without intervention from me we've made selection so much more efficient.

I wouldn't want to work there and they would have saved me so much trouble.

Bad GitHub code means nothing. Good original GitHub code means something. And the less these orgs realize that the easier it is to get engineers that are otherwise unappreciated.

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