On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@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. > > Maybe not GitHub, but something else. Do you have, anywhere on the > internet, a list of demo-worthy projects? Again drawing from the > students I work with, they're encouraged to build an actual portfolio > web site. Granted, they *are* full stack web developers, so this may > not be applicable to everyone, but still, it's independent of GitHub.
Nothing I can put on the internet because the work I have done is either an embedded system or proprietary and used in house for a company, or part of a commercial project. I do have things I can show from my machine using my development environment, and I have offered that up, but for those who want to see something on GitHub it does not get that far. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list