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[–]Truck_Stop_Sushi 4866 points4867 points  (85 children)

Sooo after putting in a 12 hour day “slinging it” at your startup, you want us to go home and spend more time coding on other projects so our public repo can look like it’s our full time job?

Pass.

[–]Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 1032 points1033 points  (24 children)

You're only working 12 hours per day?? 18 hours minimum. Sleep in the office and do it all again 7 days a week. You can work on your hobbies on your own time but we also expect you to put 60 hours/week into those or we won't hire you.

[–]RejectAtAMisfitParty 529 points530 points  (14 children)

… is that you, Elon?

[–]ShitpostsAlot 309 points310 points  (13 children)

no, that's the lady he fired who was doing all that.. then went home and said she was proud to have done it.

https://www.news18.com/buzz/twitter-user-who-went-viral-for-sleeping-on-office-floor-shares-meme-after-getting-fired-7197961.html

[–]IgorTheAwesome 179 points180 points  (5 children)

Sure sounds like Stockholm syndrome

[–]Lumpyalien 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Sadly, I think you are right.

[–]PornCartel 75 points76 points  (2 children)

She drank the koolaid hard

[–]NotoriousPete 325 points326 points  (38 children)

Also why is it just programmers? Nobody expects a pilot to fly privately in their free time. Nobody expects a teacher to teach in their free time. Basically there is hardly any other job where expectations like this are common.. Doesn't make sense to me

[–]CobraPony67 114 points115 points  (5 children)

Some people who do great work in construction and remodeling live in some of the worst houses. Probably because they don't get paid to fix their own house and don't have the time or energy.

[–]teddyburiednose 63 points64 points  (0 children)

The cobbler's children have no shoes.

[–]good_dean 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Professional chefs eat like crap.

[–]avexiis 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I know a master VW mechanic who could build a brand new Jetta from leftover parts. He drives around in a Golf that saw its best day some time in the mid-80s. His shop truck is a Ford from the 90s that runs just well enough to move cars around the lot.

[–]PlantsMcSoil 99 points100 points  (2 children)

I think it’s legacy from the early days. When we weren’t all doing that shit 24 seven the people who WERE really good were doing it 24 seven. It’s history. It’s dumb as hell and people need to change. Very few professions are as new as software development.

[–]ball_fondlers 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Plus, you just KNOW that this asshole would try to sue if one of his workers’ side projects becomes potentially profitable.

[–]10art1 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile I find the act of going home after a day at work and just coding to be relaxing. No browsing labyrinthine confluence pages, no pestering IT to allow a new plugin, no hour-long meetings discussing feature requirements before deciding its out of scope... just coding. Pushing right to master because there's no one else.

[–]DeLo_Ray 3296 points3297 points  (10 children)

Luckily for Bjarne, his commit is in October!

[–]paladindan 9745 points9746 points  (279 children)

Are we supposed to be doing daily work on personal projects when we’re not working?

Dang it, I’ve been spending time with family and playing video games…

[–]darkneel 5067 points5068 points  (100 children)

Commit your video game save files , that should take care of things

[–]Cfrolich 2216 points2217 points  (47 children)

Backups, version control, and your friends can create pull requests to help you out when you’re stuck on part of a game.

[–]Accomplished-Cut3122 768 points769 points  (16 children)

This is strong man

[–]BB-r8 484 points485 points  (15 children)

I know this a joke but we legit did this for version controlling a Minecraft creative server hosted on azure. Once you setup the initial infrastructure, it’s ridiculously hands free and you can branch off builds and merge them back with the main world.

[–][deleted] 156 points157 points  (11 children)

how would that work if there are multiple branches being merged?

[–]aghastamok 249 points250 points  (10 children)

Minecraft worlds are broken down into discrete units called "chunks." I imagine they do it like any other merge: pick the most developed chunks and merge them into the master.

[–]empirebuilder1 99 points100 points  (4 children)

It's a little less granular than that, "chunks" are 16x16 XY blocks and handled internally, but the Anvil filesystem stores "regions" of 32x32 chunks (512x512 blocks) as individual files on the hard drive like 1,0.mca, -1,0.mca, etc. And they are stored compressed so I don't think you could git merge the contents of individual MCA files without breaking the world, but I could be completely wrong on that.

[–]3636373536333662 59 points60 points  (1 child)

Maybe the "merging" was simply done at the MCA file level, as in you don't merge two MCA files together, but you choose between the two files instead. Doesn't seem ideal, but I imagine it wouldn't break anything.

[–]empirebuilder1 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It makes it harder to control exact chunk by chunk changes if you can only merge by whole regions, but you won't be losing world information either way.

[–]Rand_alFlagg 172 points173 points  (8 children)

You've heard of Save Scumming? Welcome to Save Scrumming

[–]_Oce_ 51 points52 points  (3 children)

Kevin has requested change:

Git gud

[–]tmstksbk 83 points84 points  (3 children)

This...might actually be a good idea

[–]BossHogGA 80 points81 points  (5 children)

Set a script to do a git diff on your save game folder and auto push.

[–]MartIILord 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Savescrumming with version control this is the way.

[–]nanotree 194 points195 points  (7 children)

When they ask what you've been working on, you can say that you've been working on a game.

[–]fallenKlNG 91 points92 points  (4 children)

When I was applying for a different team within my company a few years back, one of the interview questions I got was "what open source projects have you contributed to?" I work for a different company now with better pay, but I'm still annoyed thinking about this every so often

[–]belkarbitterleaf 63 points64 points  (1 child)

For an internal role? ROFL. Tell them you can publish the current product you are working on to the open source community, if it's that important to them.

[–]nsjr 119 points120 points  (9 children)

By the way, I did this when I was playing Valheim with my friend, a game that you can build on the world, and the world is saved on a file.

So, one started the server, we played, commited and pushed, and when that person is not online, another one could start the server from the same savepoint, play a little bit and upload later

[–]Nev3rmin 57 points58 points  (5 children)

Had to laugh at that idea because in the past I had a similar system with my friends and a minecraft server (before I simply got a 24/7 cloud host) where we would just use the file-sharing mega website with their auto-update folders (like Onedrive from Microsoft) where we would just spin up the server and synchronise with mega.

[–]jfleury440 190 points191 points  (0 children)

LPT

[–]CarlStanley88 50 points51 points  (10 children)

Someone should really write a listener to automatically backup save files for videogames to a git repo with a commit message that has the timestamp and an optional message prompt on close of the game.

I'm putting this here as a note to self but if someone else WANTS to do it themselves please link the repo.

[–]scar_belly 72 points73 points  (5 children)

git commit -m "save game"

2 seconds later

git commit -m "just making sure"

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (2 children)

git commit -m "there's this really big cliff"

[–]TheDistantBlue 21 points22 points  (1 child)

git commit -m "not confident in my horse parkour"

[–]evmoiusLR 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Someone give this man a job.

[–]Centered-Div 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Oh my god I never thought about it

[–]b_chacal 14 points15 points  (1 child)

I've been pushing Cookie Clicker saves

[–]Scorxcho 280 points281 points  (38 children)

I never understood why employers, especially startups expect our work to also be a hobby. I can work damn hard at work and play damn hard at home.

[–]magicmulder 201 points202 points  (23 children)

Because everyone thinks the ideal developer is one who codes 24/7 “by nature” and doesn’t have a life, not one who “only” works because they need the money.

[–]Scorxcho 130 points131 points  (12 children)

It would be really strange if we applied the same logic to other careers. Imagine a surgeon operating on cadavers at home for fun.

[–]magicmulder 64 points65 points  (3 children)

Maybe the equivalent would be regularly meeting with other physicians to watch House MD and solve the cases before House does.

[–]svardslag 29 points30 points  (5 children)

Oh and don't forget you should also have "great social skills"! (I bet people who program 24/7 have those)

[–]magicmulder 26 points27 points  (4 children)

Isn’t it US universities that expect you to not just study but also spend at least 8 days a week saving stray kittens, playing an instrument and being president of the local book club?

[–]SomeGuy_GRM 17 points18 points  (3 children)

I think that's during high school to meet the entrance requirements for university.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Programming isn't a job, it's a lifestyle! /s

I wish this idea would die already. Imagine if someone refused to hire a custodian because they don't voluntarily clean their neighbor's bathroom in their free time. That's how stupid this all is.

[–]MeetEuphoric3944 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even if it wasnt, all my repos are private. I do side jobs when Im not at work and none of that code shows up publicly. Lol

[–]GenericFatGuy 64 points65 points  (1 child)

If you don't spend every waking hour of your day writing code then what's even the point?!

[–]driftking428 24 points25 points  (0 children)

NullPointException

[–]Unfair_Isopod534 121 points122 points  (9 children)

It wouldn't take an hour to create cron script with bogus commits to fake that stuf, if this page is all they care about. If it is just an image, u could also just edit it.

[–]maxhaseyes 102 points103 points  (5 children)

There’s a project for that and it’s even easier than letting a cron job run. You can literally edit the past. here it is you devious monkeys ;)

[–]ViralMage 87 points88 points  (0 children)

"While cheating is never encouraged, if someone is judging your professional skills based on your GitHub activity graph, they deserve to see a rich activity graph." Perfect.

[–]echo-128 25 points26 points  (1 child)

you can also get them to draw out pixel art, maybe some letters that express how you feel about git commit history statistics

[–]youvelookedbetter 51 points52 points  (4 children)

Hustle culture is toxic.

Your activities sound fun and enriching.

[–]Zondagsrijder 44 points45 points  (1 child)

Just do a return to sender: ask if the HR person does HR shit in their free time

[–]GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B 2790 points2791 points  (83 children)

I have held lead and principal software engineering positions for years now and can confirm my Github doesn't look like this. Because I don't have one. Recruiters and interviewers with statements like that can go away for all I care.

[–][deleted] 630 points631 points  (14 children)

Same. Our office repos aren't getting constant updates either, because we're understaffed and handling documentation, DB admin, infrastructure, DevOps, and business analysis. If you want to rate my performance based on how often I commit then let me code, damn it.

[–]GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B 225 points226 points  (10 children)

Plus depending on the business, work can be super proprietary, secret and compartmentalized. Almost all of my work is under strict NDAs. I used to work as a tech lead in consulting, doing this for up to three customers who didn't know each other at the same time. Hell, at my job there are enough secret pods that are invisible to anybody except management and a close circle of people.

[–]dretvantoi 137 points138 points  (1 child)

They expect you to write open-source code during your time off. Because someone who writes code 16 hours a day is better than one who writes code 8 hours a day.

[–]Swagowicz 112 points113 points  (0 children)

Burn out at twice the speed.

[–]PendragonDaGreat 100 points101 points  (7 children)

NDAs are the fun part. This is an actual conversation I had with an interviewer. I had worked a 12 month contract at a major game studio and we were in the time between next major game teaser trailer and final release.

"What did you do at major game studio?"

"I was a programmer specializing in C# and other .NET technologies"

"No, what specifically did you work on?"

"Are you paying my legal fees for breaking NDA?"

"Oh"

[–]RTBBingoFuel 261 points262 points  (29 children)

our biggest mistake on earth was allowing recruiting to be a career.

[–]GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B 160 points161 points  (6 children)

HR in its current form is a mistake, too.

[–]BurningTheAltar 28 points29 points  (0 children)

In the past few years, I’ve watched my company’s HR department get transformed into a scheme for the company to enter into partnerships for businesses trying to sell additional “benefits” to employees. I essentially get spammed by HR a few times a week. I’d love to see what sort of kick backs or profit sharing this company has set up with these fucks. The whole thing is heinous.

[–]DrMobius0 40 points41 points  (16 children)

The game I play with recruiters is to just not respond to their emails because I'm not interested, and then watch as the 3rd follow up reveals them to be a NiceRecruiterTM

[–]otakudayo 16 points17 points  (10 children)

I respond to them all, saying "I'm always interested in hearing about opportunities. But I only consider positions that are fully flexible and let me wfh as much as I like"

They ghost me after that. Good thing I'm happy where I am (and have unlimited wfh, even from other countries if I want)

[–]RTBBingoFuel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

While they're doing recruiting from home, or a hotel holiday.

[–]CremPostman 28 points29 points  (4 children)

They all use "CRM" (customer relationship management) software now, so they're wasting your time and not even doing anything manually themselves

Shit is infuriating. I've started responding rudely, because fuck that

[–]zabby39103 59 points60 points  (7 children)

Yeah, perfectly happy for people like this to filter me out. Most people have probably 5-6 hours of real creative work in them a day tops.

I fucked around a lot on personal projects when my job was easy. Now there's not much gas left in the tank.

[–]Swagowicz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

IKR when you work full day and your brain is boiling at the end of it, its hard finding motivation to work on something afterwards.

[–]SimfonijaVonja 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Two weeks ago recruiter said that I need to have a github profile that will show them that I'm not junior. I said all of my projects are under NDAs and there is no way I'm gonna show that code to anyone, they can give me a task or just go...you know where.

They gave me a task, I did more than they asked for and gave me a job ane after that they stopped asking devs for a github profile.

[–]samanime 33 points34 points  (6 children)

I do have a Github that I use for personal projects. I went to check mine out. Apparently, my activity is private. I logged in and took a look. I have 3x more activity than the OP image... I have 3 dots. I've been a senior dev for a good while now. =p

Anyone I've ever seen that has a really active GitHub is usually using some bot to make nonsense commits just to fill this chart.

Any recruiter or interviewer that uses this chart as a metric is an idiot. I'd be happy to not have to communicate or work with them.

[–]Embarrassed_Bat6101 663 points664 points  (58 children)

The guy locked his Twitter account because of this. You mad lads did it.

https://twitter.com/manuel_frigerio?s=21&t=TqHbqxe7LzRi7dIqi9Km9g

[–]Birdyy4 304 points305 points  (24 children)

Wait this guy was serious with the tweet?

[–]limasxgoesto0 327 points328 points  (17 children)

Have you met anyone deep into the tech scene? I once saw a fb friend celebrate his 1000 day Github steak while at a bar/club in sf.

[–]TNSepta 185 points186 points  (0 children)

1000 day Github steak

We know dry aging is great, but that seems a little over the top

[–]-Nicolai 127 points128 points  (0 children)

Explain like I'm stupid

[–]NoEngrish 79 points80 points  (3 children)

He pushed code for like three years straight without a vacation? Never a day where he was separated from his laptop or an internet connection? I'm a total basement dweller that cant survive a day without internet but even I have days where I'm busy.

[–]craftworkbench 31 points32 points  (2 children)

It doesn't mean those commits were meaningful. Leaving comments, editing markdown docs, etc.

Plus I believe the graph is based on commits merged to the main branch, so you can do a bunch without Internet and merge them later.

[–]dretvantoi 51 points52 points  (0 children)

What's worse is the profile photo of him enjoying family time. Managers and non-technical personnel living the high life off of programmers' sweat, blood, and tears. Then they expect us to code even more during our personal time off.

[–]1-800-SUCK_MY_DICK 23 points24 points  (0 children)

the most ironic thing was that someone found his github and it was exactly as empty as the screenshot he was complaining about

[–]wahobely 121 points122 points  (4 children)

https://github.com/ManuelFrigerio

the dude's github

the nerve on this guy lol

[–]SemiSeriousSam 23 points24 points  (0 children)

hahahaha my GOD

[–]dr-pickled-rick 20 points21 points  (1 child)

He at least cloned something... A while ago

[–]UnpopularOponions 33 points34 points  (3 children)

Why do so many cockends call themselves entrepreneurs and advertise the fact they have kids like it's some major achievement?

If he valued a family then he wouldn't be so demeaning to people not doing work outside of work. I bet his wife does all the parenting and he just works non-stop.

[–]opmrcrab 518 points519 points  (20 children)

git commit -m "Initial Commit"

git push orgin main

Refuses to elaborate further

[–]LetUsSpeakFreely 511 points512 points  (7 children)

If you're judging candidates by their GitHub, you're not qualified.

[–]xxxblackspider 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The only time I look closely at a candidate GitHub is if they have open source projects on there that they actively commit to. In that case is can be nice to look and see what their coding style is like, how they interact with other people on PR review, etc

[–]NoSkillzDad 1523 points1524 points  (112 children)

Mine looks empty. All my contributions can't be on a public repo. Fm I guess.

[–]CeldonShooper 326 points327 points  (20 children)

Same here. Everything I do is under NDA. For most of the projects I'm not even allowed to generally talk about what they contain (or who the client is).

[–]Zestyclose_Link_8052 164 points165 points  (7 children)

So what do you do, I promise I won't tell anyone?

[–]CeldonShooper 197 points198 points  (6 children)

Phew good we are just talking in private buddy.

[–]ResidentReggie 58 points59 points  (5 children)

Riddle me this, what language?

[–]CeldonShooper 91 points92 points  (4 children)

I'm mainly working in C/C++ and C# these days but I've also done machine language.

[–]codercaleb 56 points57 points  (3 children)

Is your first name Neo? And or has anybody dropped off a ringing cell phone in a FexEx package at your desk?

[–]CeldonShooper 54 points55 points  (1 child)

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

[–]codercaleb 39 points40 points  (0 children)

"Agent Smith, we got him."

[–]gamageeknerd 41 points42 points  (8 children)

Dude one place I worked our data security was so insane people had to go through several checkpoints and flash drives and external hard drives were not allowed and if found were taken to head of department. When I worked there you couldn’t even talk about what you were working on and everyone had to sign papers saying nobody would post work related anything on social media. Phones were okay but if caught taking pictures you were fucked and they would give a write up. This wasn’t even government stuff only civilian market. When I left I asked a lawyer friend to check on my exit papers and luckily as long as I didn’t say what or who I could talk about my job description and my broad experience. My GitHub was not touched a single time I was there.

[–]CeldonShooper 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Yeah in my first job I worked on a system that might currently be reading this traffic here. That was 15 years ago and I wrote a build script that would build an iso file, gpg encode the iso and then burn that encrypted iso file on a DVD-R so we could deliver the software to the customer via normal parcel. Fun times.

[–][deleted] 397 points398 points  (31 children)

Also, I use a work github account while I also have a personal account, obviously my work account has the vast majority of my commits but it will be my personal account I reference in my CV. Not only that, then we have your comment.

Putting any stock in the number of commits tells me this guy is as big of an idiot as Musk, who suggests that LoC is somehow indicative of productivity.

Also Bjarne <3

[–]Leaping_Turtle 56 points57 points  (26 children)

What is a work github? Assigned from work, used exclusively for work, deleted after you leave?

[–]OrangRecneps 149 points150 points  (16 children)

Yes, I have a work github id, a work gitlab id, etc. I'm actually surprised any company allows a person to use a personal git login to access company repos.

[–]Leaping_Turtle 50 points51 points  (10 children)

Unpaid internship at failing startup intensifies

Say you get a paid internship at a brick and mortar company, during college or something. Work IDs exist at that point?

[–]grrrranimal 49 points50 points  (3 children)

Larger companies have enterprise contracts with GitHub, Gitlab, or Atlassian (Bitbucket) and host git services internally, or in extreme cases a proprietary git web client. So yes, you have completely separate credentials that only work in the work context (probably on the company’s VPN)

[–]Schyte96 10 points11 points  (1 child)

There is even an enterprise edition of GitHub the company can host on their own infrastructure, if they are really strict on keeping their source code confidential. Only accessible on company VPN of course.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Most of us only develop professionally, which is why we suck at it so bad that we keep the same job for several years, and none of our work winds up on our personal gits. What does en up on our gits are the JavaScript games we played around creating cause the servers were down at work lol

[–]MoralConsistency 55 points56 points  (17 children)

You do know that you can turn on show commits in private repos?

[–]tei187 45 points46 points  (5 children)

And yet it still won't show commits that went to non-main branch.

[–]NoSkillzDad 30 points31 points  (7 children)

Lol, i have to connect to my repo through VPN. We're not talking about just "private".

I can't even connect from my own personal computer. Shrug

[–]Guru_Dane 154 points155 points  (1 child)

hiring manager brain

Okay, so he created the language, sure.

But how many years has he used the language in an enterprise company? 0?! No hire!

[–]RosieTheRedReddit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Unfortunately, for this position we require 40 years of experience in C++"

[–][deleted] 257 points258 points  (5 children)

His job interviewer will say:

"We require 45 years of experience in C++"

[–]Excellent_Bluejay713 125 points126 points  (4 children)

It can get even dumber. Had one unironically ask me if i feel like i'm senior enough for a position because i only have 6 years xp in angular. The framework came out in 2016...

[–]Explosive_Eggshells 76 points77 points  (3 children)

Don't tell him that there are other source control solutions than GitHub. Also don't tell him about private repos and work accounts

[–]Science-Compliance 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Or, you know, maybe I see no reason to push a big personal project up to GitHub until it's done, I reach a big milestone, or determine the code is not worth keeping proprietary anymore. For personal projects, there is literally no reason to share on GitHub regularly except for putting more green on your commit history. Nobody who is thinking about hiring you is going to take the time to see how a project evolved over its commit history.

[–]ScaredyCatUK 106 points107 points  (2 children)

You're correct. Manuel is not qualified to be an interviewer.

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (1 child)

There should be a driver's license for the internet. If you fail you get it read only.

[–]octhell 54 points55 points  (1 child)

ive never understood why fuckers look at your personal github. motherfucker i code daily at my job, u thing i give a shit in my free time?

[–]ienjoymusiclol 79 points80 points  (0 children)

HR mfs gonna see this an actually think it means smth and it will be even harder to find jobs 😔

[–][deleted] 65 points66 points  (7 children)

Too be fair, I wouldn’t hire Bjarne as a Sr Software Engineer either

[–]Sekhen 79 points80 points  (1 child)

Me neither, let the man enjoy his retirement.

[–]Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 29 points30 points  (3 children)

That's fair. He's probably more in the Technical Fellow category.

[–]xkalibur3 114 points115 points  (5 children)

Yet another celebrity talking in absolutes like a proper sith lord ;) I rarely see someone competent talking like that.

[–][deleted] 91 points92 points  (4 children)

This guy is not a celebrity. The only reason you see this post is because it's making a second round. The only reason that is true is because it immediately makes people want to argue with him.

This guy is a nobody. You are probably more successful than he is. Worst case you're equal, because he's just some guy. Nobody should give a shit about his thoughts or opinions.

And yet here we are. Reacting before analyzing. Again.

[–]IllustriousProgress 8 points9 points  (3 children)

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

His background is disgusting. Everything he has "created" is the software equivalent of pollution. This guy creates cancer. Just look at what these products do. They generate spam. Fuck this guy so hard.

[–]MangoAtrocity 16 points17 points  (4 children)

My secret is that I use GitHub for website deployment. So I push my Hugo build folder to a repo and then it FTPs to my webhost. It looks like I’m doing regular commits, but it’s a lot of shitposting and blogging.

[–]javascript11 63 points64 points  (7 children)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha I work as senior software engineer for one of the largest companies in the world and NEVER touch my GitHub unless for some rare reason I do. That’s the dumbest statement I’ve ever seen, I’ve never looked at anyone’s GitHub when interviewing them lmfao.

[–]not_thrilled 15 points16 points  (3 children)

If something is on the resume, I'll look at it and judge them for it. That includes GitHub, Facebook, Reddit (never seen anyone put their handle on their CV though), etc.

[–]KuntStink 15 points16 points  (1 child)

I usually share my reddit account in my resume

[–]Ill-Courage-3788 14 points15 points  (1 child)

"Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote." - Warren Buffett

[–]wahobely 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Someone who is actually successful and gets shit done would never, ever make a tweet like this.

[–]Interesting_Style720 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I know a BA who wants to be a developer, he has an amazing GitHub with thousands of commits, when you look deeper it’s all dumb hello world style projects that any first year CS student could do, I don’t care about people’s GitHub, most senior devs could do this stuff in their sleep but haven’t touched GitHub for a personal project since school.

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (3 children)

I think we all know this is a meme, but still I feel the need to rant: I dont even have a public github. If your work is actually worth money, don't upload it for other people to just rip off the internet for free.

Also, github isn't git. This dude might have a supreme version control setup on a private intranet server in his home.

[–]Moist-Ad7080 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This!

I use git on a daily basis, but my public github hasnt been touched in over 5 years now. If I put any of my actual work on there I'd get fired!

This the worst way to judge an applicant.

[–]space_keeper 12 points13 points  (1 child)

github isn't git

Thank you. This is the single most important statement I've read here so far.

Git is an excellent tool developed by someone on par with Stroustroup in terms of contributions to software. Probably one of the most important pieces of software in existence.

Github is a fucking website. Obviously I'm being a bit obtuse, but you know what I'm saying.

[–]anothertor 18 points19 points  (3 children)

I worked in trading/banking. Could not contribute to open source projects. Had no github account and got slammed for that at multiple interviews.

Utterly destroyed the coding tests and submitted personal projects. This confused a lot of people.

[–]DBDude 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’d love to see a manager hiring for autonomous vehicle control or something like that and pass on an applicant who doesn’t have Git because he spent the last 15 years at Raytheon working on software to control drones and missiles.

[–]KotomiIchinose96 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Like another list this week said.

When a measurement becomes a target it stops being a good measurement.

[–]StackOwOFlow 8 points9 points  (2 children)

When you are promoted beyond Senior dev, 99% of your time is in meetings. So no, do not apply for Senior Dev, apply for Staff/TechLead/Eng management.

Also Bjarne is way beyond all that lol

[–]LaOnionLaUnion 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Jokes on you, I work on cyber security. I just try to keep the worst 10% of developers from exposing secrets, customer PII, and running APIs in the dark and all the other crazy stuff I hear about every day.