*I'm only upvoting this article in hopes that people will read the comment section.*
"The first thing I look for in a resume is a GitHub URL. If I can find that, I stop reading the resume and start reading code. Doing open source is not a be-all and end-all by any means,..."
I really enjoy coding in my few hours (read < 1 hour) of spare time after my son goes to bed, and while I could spend that time preening immaculate projects to impress employers and keep my commit history alive, that would kill the joy of programming for me. I would seriously consider a career change if maintaining code as a second job was required to keep my career alive. Additionally, I have seen many job candidates attempt to make github accounts specifically for resumes and the results are mostly mediocre due to the lack of time and motivation required to build something informative enough to effect the outcome of a hiring. If anything the general consensus from looking at theses github accounts is on average more negative than positive when we see repositories of "bootcamp" exercises.
The author states a disclaimer "Doing open source is not a be-all and end-all by any means" which may be true in his case, but what he is doing is encouraging this behaviour in other workplaces. IMO resume-github showboating has lessened in the past few years, but I would hate for us to regress again.
I'm considering writing a small library that I've always needed at every job I've had (and always had to half-ass implement part of its functionality due to time/budget constraints). To have it slowly cooked, pristine, fully tested, reliable and a pleasure to use for people. Because that's what I wanted at those times in those jobs.
Not only I would love working on it, but would also help with an aggressive "if you like it, good, if not, good luck with your coding tests" approach to being hired. Disclaimer: I do poorly in tests.
But if I was required to have that, I wouldn't ever had a job until now, simple as that.
"this is textbook xenophobia and you should be ashamed."
Keep things civil, I dont want HN to evolve into reddit.
car_analogy comment was benign, but honestly as a Canadian living abroad I am different than the other people I live around. I would not call myself X country adjective here (e.g. Swiss). That is not saying I'm not trying my best to integrate.
"The first thing I look for in a resume is a GitHub URL. If I can find that, I stop reading the resume and start reading code. Doing open source is not a be-all and end-all by any means,..."
I really enjoy coding in my few hours (read < 1 hour) of spare time after my son goes to bed, and while I could spend that time preening immaculate projects to impress employers and keep my commit history alive, that would kill the joy of programming for me. I would seriously consider a career change if maintaining code as a second job was required to keep my career alive. Additionally, I have seen many job candidates attempt to make github accounts specifically for resumes and the results are mostly mediocre due to the lack of time and motivation required to build something informative enough to effect the outcome of a hiring. If anything the general consensus from looking at theses github accounts is on average more negative than positive when we see repositories of "bootcamp" exercises.
The author states a disclaimer "Doing open source is not a be-all and end-all by any means" which may be true in his case, but what he is doing is encouraging this behaviour in other workplaces. IMO resume-github showboating has lessened in the past few years, but I would hate for us to regress again.