Python Learning

[Larry Martell]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Rob Gaddi
<rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote:
> On 12/18/2017 08:45 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> However, one great way to stand out is a portfolio of GitHub projects.
>>> Several people have gotten an offer largely based on those (after they
>>> aced the technical interviews). For example, we just hired someone who
>>> had written a game in sed. That doesn't make him an "interesting
>>> person," nor do we look for game or sed developers. But that silly
>>> exercise deeply resonated with our team. We expect to have great synergy
>>> with him.
>>
>>
>> I have been excluded from even getting an interview because I did not
>> have a portfolio of GitHub projects. I think that is a bad filter. I
>> work 60-70 hours a week for pay, and I have a family and personal
>> interests.
>>
>
> When I'm hiring I don't necessarily need a candidate to have an extensive
> open-source portfolio, but I need to see some kind of portfolio, just as a
> bar of "This is what I consider my good work to be."  The idea that someone
> is going to have years of experience, but not a single page of code that
> they can let me look over always strikes me as odd.

I have lots of code and projects to show, but only on my computer. I
once got a django/python job because I had a PHP app I did to show.
But if they had not interviewed me because I had nothing on a public
site they never would have seen it.