Re:Hiring Software Developers
by infocollector on Sunday November 17, 2013 @11:24AM
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Nice article, except I disagree on one point: Forget about a general Github account. Even having a Github account/or a Github project used by a billion users - does not prove that one is a great programmer according to me. Perhaps this a Github advertisement? (Python lover + mercurial user + No Github Account = bad programmer :-)
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Or that not having a GitHub account with a billion stars makes you a bad programmer.
Or (gasp) not having a GitHub account at all.
Chances are, if you're a full-time software engineer, you're already spending a significant chunk of your waking life thinking about\working on code, just by showing up to work for >= 40 hours per week. Whatever happened to well-rounded employees?
In my first interview, one question asked was "How do you maintain a healthy work/life balance" which was really encouraging.
Re:Hiring Software Developers
by astrieanna on Sunday November 17, 2013 @12:55PM
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It also ignores anything you've done close-source for work, any projects you've done that didn't use git, any projects you contribute to that don't happen to be hosted on github, anything related-but-not-code that you do (speaking at conferences, etc).
Re:Hiring Software Developers
by mixmastamyk on Sunday November 17, 2013 @06:42PM
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I've found when people talk of a "github account" they just want to see some code, not that github is in any way required. Kind of like calling a cola a Coke, or a copier a Xerox. Have yet to hear a negative comment about my bitbucket account.