Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed for a web developer?

Re:Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed fo... by rogerbinns on Monday July 23, 2012 @11:10PM (#4284183)

When doing hiring I want to see evidence that you are a web developer. Acronym soups on a resume are irrelevant by themselves since everyone does that. Quite simply you need to have a portfolio that substantiates your list of acronyms. You can bet I will do a view source and view network traffic on it.

What is important to me is also that developers communicate well. In an interview I put them in front of the whiteboard to explain something they claim to know well from their resume, looking at the communication.

You could do that sort of thing in advance by writing a series of blog postings, for example showing how you came up with the top level design and implemented one of your portfolio items.

Attention to detail also matters and is a strong signalling mechanism. For example your text above has a spelling error that is picked up in Firefox and Chrome.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed fo... by mustefaj on Monday July 23, 2012 @11:19PM (#4284218)

Honestly, if a spelling error picked up by a browser casts a negative shadow, or reflects an inability to pay attention to detail... sigh.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed fo... by aasarava on Monday July 23, 2012 @11:27PM (#4284240)

Why sigh? Spell check is free and ubiquitous in this day and age. If someone is writing to a potential employer and overlooks that squiggly red line telling them something is potentially wrong, why should I believe they won't also misspell a variable, use = instead of ==, or overlook important compiler warnings?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed fo... by rogerbinns on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @12:12AM (#4284325)

Not to mention this example is in your face. For most attention to detail issues there isn't an obvious red squiggly - instead you actually have to pay attention to detail.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed fo... by ruswick on Monday July 23, 2012 @11:12PM (#4284196)

To what error are you referring?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the minimum level of experience needed fo... by bgmarx on Monday July 23, 2012 @11:55PM (#4284298)

Here is the typo to which I believe he is referring:

"but hese terms are ambiguous and hard to interpret"

It happens to everyone...

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