On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2017 16:05:10 Rob Gaddi wrote: > >> On 12/18/2017 08:45 AM, Larry Martell 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. >> >> 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've known Larry for years via another list. He has worked on a lot of > stuff in the financial arena, wrapped in non-disclosure clauses that > prevent him from even saying what color he dots the i's with, so he gets > work as much by word of mouth as other more conventional paths.
True story. > To not hire him because he doesn't have a big portfolio could be a > mistake, Rob. Its up to you. Thank you my friend. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
