Re:The Nonsense of 10X Developers and GitHub as a CV
by 6t6t6 on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @08:32PM
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Yes, but the article is about companies hiring talented people, not about being hired.
Also, having developers with a minimum competence, a good business ambiance will make the difference, more than hiring a supposed coder-rock-star.
The following very simple project has helped me immensely.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/281msj/fast_off...
It's taken me from working in an obscure company on an obscure project into being at least somewhat heard of in the specific field. People are using this in lots of projects and it's been ported to many other languages. It's opened up networking with others in the field and in interviews I've had people state "yeah we looked at your code, it's really clean and efficient".