News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What I Learnt From Reviewing 22 CVs. Parent comment

Re:What I Learnt From Reviewing 22 CVs by bpyne on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:05AM (#23759399)
There is bad code in everyone's repo. Several of my repos are from courses in grad school. From a software engineering standpoint, they are horrendous. But, they solved the problem the professor assigned and taught me what the professor intended by the assignment.

It's probably more helpful, in evaluating a developer, to see a progression of thought rather than shiny, functioning code.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What I Learnt From Reviewing 22 CVs by willcipriano on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:30AM (#23759634)
In my experience personal projects get reviewed so infrequently that I'm not all that worried about someone digging down and evaluating the code quality of a 4+ year old repo.
[ Parent | on HN ]