Re:Resumes are dangerous
by caw on Monday April 30, 2012 @06:44PM
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I suppose that means for people who have restrictive agreements, networking and good CV skills are more important.
If you don't have a github (or whatever online presence is being sought after), you'll lean more heavily on places that use a CV, or through your network. Getting in through a network probably means you don't need the github.
Conversely, if you have an awesome github and an awesome network, then the fact you have a github is moot (unless people only know you because of it). You'll get hired anyway.
So the github only really matters for the portion of people who don't have a network, and are applying for companies who care about code they can review before you even talk to them, which is mostly the HN bubble, and not any megacorps.
Re:Resumes are dangerous
by pnathan on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @12:54PM
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You might say I'm in the HN bubble (I am, after all, reading it), but I work at a midsize corp growing towards megacorp, and github is a bonus to your resume here, especially with the more outward looking engineers.
If you don't have a github (or whatever online presence is being sought after), you'll lean more heavily on places that use a CV, or through your network. Getting in through a network probably means you don't need the github.
Conversely, if you have an awesome github and an awesome network, then the fact you have a github is moot (unless people only know you because of it). You'll get hired anyway.
So the github only really matters for the portion of people who don't have a network, and are applying for companies who care about code they can review before you even talk to them, which is mostly the HN bubble, and not any megacorps.