Ask HN: Showing personal projects to potential employers

Re:Ask HN: Showing personal projects to potential employers by pawelwentpawel on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:26AM (#2820191)

Fortunately I landed an internship in a good company because of my portfolio, not my grades. They saw that I was developing quite a lot of stuff that was not really related to my degree and they liked it.

I would look for something related to the thing that company does, but a range of different thingies created just for yourself shows that you're creative, learn quickly and actually like doing this stuff.

Coding your own projects it's better than sitting and doing nothing so I guess that it's hard to "loose points".

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Re:Ask HN: Showing personal projects to potential employers by Brewer on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:34AM (#2820220)

I'd like to get an internship with Mixpanel -- a web analytics company -- next summer so I've been reading up on data mining and I hope to get to work on a related project using Python in the next few weeks.

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