throwtheheyaway

Re:Ask HN: Other Devs, How Do You Deal with Socials, Blogging, etc. on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:18AM (#34323130)

> - If I want to join a new company, a technical blog or active developer advocates help me decide. I can get a sense of a company culture through what they chose to post and whom they hire for their advocate roles.

Working with some of these over the last forever.. I don't in any way believe they share anything about the company culture, or frankly the correct usage of the company's technology as it wants.

I very much see this as people who want to be fully-time developers, but aren't currently. Across orgs - I have yet to see this not be true, but maybe it's just me, and the others with whom I discuss this. Echo champers are very much a thing.

Ask HN: Other Devs, How Do You Deal with Socials, Blogging, etc.

Posted by throwtheheyaway on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:04AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Throwaway.. because I don't want to tie my actual account to this one.People - how do you deal with the ongoing requirements it appears that jobs place, such as social network involvement. To me - this means LinkedIn posting rubbish, Twitter bollocks, public GitHub repos for sharing - even the asks from employers to post here.I, as a person have zero accounts anywhere, except for one here. I've...

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