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A comment on Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet ... by dnautics on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:30PM (#27848287)
I dunno, I'm pretty sure I was hired without technical interview on the power of my GitHub profile. This is for a small startup (post-series-A, pre-series-B), programming in a slightly-less-popular-but-gaining-in-popularity language. Pre job-search I pinned all of my repos (the most popular ones to the top) in that language.

I was sure to carve out exceptions for all of my side projects in my employment contract, they did not argue about it.

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Re:Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet ... by cooljacob204 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:45PM (#27849210)
The interview for my current job was basically reviewing my GitHub projects and discussing design decisions. I really enjoyed that process but I can also see how that isn't really viable in most cases (A lot of people don't have side projects, nor should they have to IMO).
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