Re:How To Hire Me (or any other programmer)
by VikingCoder on Friday March 22, 2013 @07:48PM
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> Sure, of course.
I get applicants who claim they're C++ experts, and they've never cracked Boost open to look for anything good, and they've never heard of TR1 or anything that followed. I'd like to have that discussion with a candidate. That's all I meant by "know Boost."
> You can also have a look at my GitHub
When I can do that, it's awesome.
Many candidates have been work-for-hire their entire careers, in states with Non-Competes that are either enforceable or people are afraid their previous / current employer might try to enforce it. I don't hold a lack of a GitHub account against someone.
Do I know it exists? Sure, of course. Have I used all of the 50+ libraries in Boost? nope. Maybe about 10% of them. What exactly do you mean by "know Boost"?
> "Let Me Code, Damnit" doesn't help me assess that as well as something that looks - at first blush - like a Cooke-Cutter Technical Interview does.
You can also have a look at my GitHub where you can read actual code I have written and see how I've handled pull requests, bug reports, etc.