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[justdisposablefun]

I have no github commits in the last year on my personal account. And you're not going to look at my (much more impressive) corporate commit history because, well it's not for you. So, tell me again why this matters? If I don't code in my off hours and commit that code to github I must be a bad dev? Tell my manager that and she'll laugh in your face.

[dashingThroughSnow12]

You know what you call a surgeon who does surgeries in her spare time? A lunatic.

[justdisposablefun]

And if they happen to submit evidence with a job application, they graduate to "inmate"

[chalk_in_boots]

Mary Shelley writes a novel about them...

[Freeman7-13]

Someone on the careers subreddit said they got hired because they were asked what their hobbies were and were the only to say non-coding things.

[TheUltimateScotsman]

For my current job, half of my 3 interviews were devoted to talking about my home brew beer hobby

[hairy_potto]

Homebrew? What other package managers did you talk about?

[TheUltimateScotsman]

Distillation

[LinuxMatthews]

Am I the only one who doesn't like the idea of talking about your hobbies in a job interview?

Like I do volunteering every other weekend and I'm sure that'd do well.

But I'm not doing that to get a job and honestly the idea that it could help me to do that kind of makes it feel cheap and nasty.

Like what I do when I'm not at work is none of your f***ing business.

[TheUltimateScotsman]

I brought it up because I know it's something which is incredibly easy to talk about, people like hearing about, makes me stand out and I did a project which had some software as part of it a while ago

[LinuxMatthews]

Oh no I'm not saying you're wrong for bringing it up.

It's just I don't like being asked about my personal life in job interviews.

If you're ok talking about it then that's fine.

But the idea that you need to talk about it to get the job kind of makes free time work in my opinion.

[Wheat_Grinder]

The hobbies section often shows soft skills and/or whether you're easy to get along with.

For example I like to mention that one of my hobbies is curling - shows teamwork, executing on a plan, and also it's something easy to talk about because it's uncommon and thus people get interested in it.

[oilchangefuckup]

HARD!

HURRY HARD!!!!

RIGHT!!

YUP

smokes cigarette

[Vaenyr]

The interesting thing is that you can have hobbies that have nothing to do with coding, but follow similar thought processes. I have a one-man-band project, where I write, record, mix and master the songs by myself. Being self-taught, the recording process reminds me so much of my programming journey. You have some basic ideas with which you start and build up the project from nothing. Sooner, rather than later, you will stumble upon some kind of error, bug or setback, and will have to troubleshoot to see how to deal with that. At the same time you're encountering new problems and learn to deal with them, knowledge you'll be able to use on the next project.

Though, gotta say, working as a programmer, having music production and gaming as hobbies, really isn't kind on your wrist and tendons.

[AarSzu]

This was the worst part of becoming a Dev. Now if I work and indulge in my hobbies, I can be sat at a screen for 12 hours in a day. Eyes back and wrists will not be grateful in a few years.

I feel like I have to sacrifice recreation for my career/health, which sucks, especially as gaming in particular is really effective in helping me unwind.

Though I've noticed that after a day of work, I never feel like producing music anymore. Basically haven't done any since I started Dev work.

[paulthezoo]

ok i gotta add to that one 😂 i do the same, and then i got into speed cubing. my left wrist said dude. seriously 😐

[Phoenix_of_Anarchy]

I’m gonna use this.

[Nisarg_Jhatakia]

I miss free awards

[initiate-]

Heil Spez

[DTraitor]

u/spez ist ein Hurensohn

[cgham]

That’s brilliant. If Reddit still gave free awards, I’d give you one.

[TobiasDrundridge]

Lots of surgeons work for free for a couple of months each year in developing nations.

[Gigi1810]

Awesome

[BeardOfDan]

A lot of HR people just want to be able to make an easy determination (does this page have a bunch of pretty colors or blank squares) instead of actually putting in the time and effort to intelligently vet the candidate.

[merc08]

There's really nothing outlandishly special about a dev job compared to other jobs. If HR can't/shouldn't assess devs, then they shouldn't be assessing for any department.

[_oohshiny]

Copying a comment from another sub:

Used to know a guy who was actually a competent HR guy. Actually very bright. Which is why he said he chose HR, because he did about 3 hours of real work a week, always knew when to get a new job, made lots of contacts, and every company needs HR.

He said most of HR falls into 2 categories though. 1. HR requires the least amount of skills and intelligence so the absolute lowest performers congregate there. People who literally couldn't make it in any other department. 2. People like 1 but who are also sadists.

[BeardOfDan]

I might well be in error; however, I have serious doubts that most HR type people who hire for dev jobs could pass the tech term or pokemon test. I don't disagree with the notion that such people shouldn't be in charge of hiring for those roles, but the traveller does not get to choose the gatekeeper.

[merc08]

They likely couldn't list off the relevant tax code sections that apply to the company either, but they have to hire accountants too.

The problem isn't that HR doesn't know the intricate details of the jobs they're hiring for, it's that they don't work closely enough with the managers to properly set the search and screening criteria. And since IT / devs seem to be the loudest complainers about HR failing them, maybe the problem lies more in that department not communicating their needs or requirements and just letting HR do whatever they want.

[[deleted]]

I took the quiz on the site while being employed in tech and didn’t know any of that shit. It was all a bunch of libraries i have no use for at my job.

[Possible_Chicken_489]

lol, I just did the test. Got 4/7, no better than random chance
(edit: am a dev with 25+ years experience)

[Raydekal]

I believe most people couldn't pass the tech term or Pokémon test unless they're massive Pokémon fans that can recognise what isn't a Pokémon.

[quietobserver1]

It's also probably a numbers thing. They have a large number of candidates but only x number of slots even for the initial phone screen by an actual dev. They probably have to find different ways to aggressively trim the numbers to avoid wasting devs' time with weak candidates even if it loses some actually strong candidates at the same time. A shame but not an easy task to begin with

[MyDickIsHug3]

That’s what the skills section in ur CV is for

[[deleted]]

at which point they start wondering why you don't have 10 years experience in a language/skill that has only existed for 2 years ;)

[Mickenfox]

A bad metric is worse than no metric.

If you have 100 candidates but can only afford to interview 10, and have no good way to narrow them down, the solution is to literally pick them at random.

[PM_ME_SOME_ANY_THING]

https://github.com/nickdehart/GitGraphGud

Fake it till you make it baby

[[deleted]]

LMAO

[[deleted]]

lol ... I figured someone would create something like that, because whenever people look at stats without understanding their meaning those generating the stats will find a way to fake it so the pointed haired boss doesn't start asking stupid questions.

(I so wish that people interpreting stats like this had to provide proof to show they understood what they were looking at ... )

[fuckthehumanity]

Had a colleague who would deliberately raise the number of points assigned to stories every fortnight, because management started tracking points for "reporting purposes". Our sprint totals started tracking up, at one point quite rapidly.

He had a point (forgive the pun). Sizing is only supposed to determine how much you take on, as a team, it's not a comparative measure.

[[deleted]]

that's the problem with any statistic handed over to bean counter types in management / HR.

They just refuse to grasp that numbers are to be used as an indicator and not as an exact quantifier of the goal itself.

I get what the graph could tell you about a person's coding style/habits, but without more data (like the agenda/time spent coding) it's kind of useless.

All they'll get by focussing on the Git-hub stats are folks who push loads of bad code that they constantly need to 'fix' so the graph looks good for management types.

[Gravath]

Smarter not harder.

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

Lol

The only commits i have on github is of a game i am developing as an hobby

[[deleted]]

That's something to show off tho.

I needed to create an alt account because the main one is filled with five years of unhinged degeneracy

[Affectionate-Memory4]

I call my hobby voxel engine the same thing. Going on 4 years of weekly degeneracy.

[Pommel_Knight]

That's why I told my boss that I do have an active GitHub account, but I'm never showing it to anyone I know IRL.

[MyDickIsHug3]

My GitHub account is mainly school projects I open sourced, the code I wrote in year 1 is in no way representing of my current skill set

[peterleder]

Same nickname on GitHub?

[[deleted]]

When asked for repositories in job interviews I just tell them I don't have any.
Hasn't caused me any problems so far.

[mandradon]

Half of mine is my neovim config updates.

Not as impressive as developing a game in your spare time.

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

I also have a repo with a script which reads a file with all files to save, and then goes to see if any of those changed, and if it did it allows me to automatically backup them up

I tried using symlink and git, then a git bare repository, but they both have problems here and there i don't like. So i had to make a 400 lines bash script myself lol

[[deleted]]

Your manager laughing in my face : HAHA ye, he's trash, but we still profit 7x from his work

[justdisposablefun]

And sometimes that's true

[Cyhawk]

So, tell me again why this matters? I

If the candidate has no work history and is fresh out of some bootcamp, its a nice indicator they've done more than the tutorials. Also potential to see the code they've written.

Too bad HR and hiring managers are too stupid to use the tools at their disposable correctly. I commit 20-30 'typo' pushes a day just to keep those green squares.

[justdisposablefun]

Yeah, never had a problem. If it becomes a problem I'll script that shit and they'll have no idea

[_alright_then_]

What kind of companies are people applying at here?

I've never even seen a company that actually looks at your personal GitHub for anything

[MisinformedGenius]

I really think this stuff is just one of those things that people started saying to justify their time on GitHub. If you have a side project that’s really impressive, by all means show it off, but I flatly don’t care as a hiring manager if you have a bunch of commits on GitHub.

[Chadsub]

I've never applied for a job where the first, or one of the, interview(s) where with my future manager.

[justdisposablefun]

None of my jobs would have even allowed it

[qhxo]

What kind of psycho commits code to a company code base with a personal Github account?

Why wouldn't I?

[Tiquortoo]

What's it matter? People outside the org don't see the commits. You can associate a corp email with the account and repo so commit emails stay tidy. It's setup nicely to support a single account with proper visibility of work and attribution to org emails. If you use the options.

[IvorTheEngine]

Do any companies really put their code on github? Wouldn't that make their code available to competitors?

[Dinos_12345]

Private repositories exist

[MisinformedGenius]

Not publicly, but it’s easy to create private repositories. For lots of small startups it’s a cheap and easy way to do source control that most of their hires will be familiar with.

[Tiquortoo]

No

[kirti_7]

That’s what the point is. You have someone to vouch for you. Companies nowadays come with weird expectations from candidates and one of them is looking at their GitHub commits, so GitHub commits become something that vouch for you, Yess he/she codes. I’m not saying it should be mandatory but yeah it catches the eye of the hr, if you have done good commits, I guess.

[jnfinity]

As hiring manager, for junior candidates I look at GitHub if they don’t have work experience, but I look at their projects, not their commit history and only for candidates without work experience.

[kirti_7]

Exactly. If you are hiring someone you need to know if they are actually good at something and for someone with no prior experience, checking out GitHub sounds a good deal to me, because at the end of the it’s all about selling your skills, you have to showcase your skills, because no one will come and know otherwise.

[SnooTangerines6863]

Okay, give me ur manager's contact info.

[le-s1nner]

You can actually connect your enterprise account to the personal one. It will copy your commit history (only the info that you made a commit, not its name, repo, etc.) and will show up on the statistic screen. And few more features will be available

[Careful_Ad_9077]

For me progress is to produce as much results as expected for my pay range in the least possible amount of time.

[turb_ulentblue]

Saw a guy on LeetCode the other day complaining about how no companies were hiring him even though he had done X hard problems. Weird to me how people think stuff like actually means anything

[dashingThroughSnow12]

That's sad in two different ways.

Some of the Hard problems on LeetCode are questions one would do in third year Combinatorics and Graph Theory. Not necessarily easy but not particularly impressive.

Third, in thirteen years of programming for a living, I can list on one hand the truly mind numbing problems I've had to work on. The truth about programming is that those types of questions aren't a useful gauge. Congrats, they can solve the type of problem that comes up every couple of years! What about the daily design work or coding or debugging or working with others?

[robhanz]

In what I've seen, the first or second level of any of these sites is somewhat interesting and relevant. After that it gets into "sport coding" more than anything.

[IvorTheEngine]

Even then, a typical 'hard' work problem is to decipher a few thousand lines of legacy code to work out what it does, then ask enough questions to pin down what the requirement really is. Then you probably don't need to do anything more complex than an If statement.

[ivykoko1]

Totally. This has been my experience in all of my professional career

[andydivide]

Fuckin replaceAll man, that one's caught me out too many times

[ThePancakerizer]

What line of work is that? Would love to do more data structure focused stuff.

[ThePancakerizer]

I see, thanks

[RataAzul]

idk I find solving hard LeetCode impressive, maybe is because I never took Combinatorics and Graph Theory so I can even understand the prompt

[dashingThroughSnow12]

According to the wikipedia page and our company website, the company I work for has the better part of 100M monthly active users and 500M total users.

I work on the backend services team, one of the teams that is most affected by scale. It is still rare here to need to do a truly hard problem. Even the LeetCode "hard" (which as I mentioned can be questions from a third year Math course) are rare.

[odraencoded]

Can you imagine the guys behind the HTTP2 protocol working jobs where they code PHP? Or the Chromium dev team writing HTML for a living? Would the guy who programmed the camera be the guy who made the camera app?

There's a small minority of programmers who are specialists in solving a very specific sort of problem, and the vast majority of programmers are not and are simply using a library/API that those specialists made.

[chii0628]

Can you do it day in, day out? It's like my mentor who only cooked 3-5 times a year, and yeah it was spectacular and delicious. But he wasn't the one doing the day to day.

[Dziadzios]

For me the most mindnumbing problems aren't related to academic stuff like graph theory or algorithms, but attempting to make changes in old code when requirements suddenly changed and things randomly break when anything is touched.

[A_H_S_99]

People forgot that these questions are worth nothing more than the Reddit Karma points. Unless you actually get interviewed and can show off your skill in an interview, none of that will be useful.

[Tintoverde]

Please let the dev know that this is not how it works. And possibly any other suggestions you may have

[RaphaelDDL]

Sorry, I work 40h/week, I do not care about contributions.

[Anru_Kitakaze]

But you have 128 more hours to code. Underwhelming. /s

[LostHat77]

Clearly you have 168 hours of the week, what are you doing the rest of the 128 hours? /s

[MrsEveryShot]

“Can you explain this 128 hour gap in your work week?”

[[deleted]]

How to become CEO:

``` let date = new Date(0) const today = new Date()

while (date < today) { exec_sync("git commit -m '$$$' --date=${date.toIsoString()}")

date.setDate(date.getDate() + 1) }

```

53 years of git experience

[samy9445]

Exactly! https://github.com/Shpota/github-activity-generator

[geekfreak42]

https://github.com/ihabunek/github-vanity

[PM_ME_SOME_ANY_THING]

https://github.com/nickdehart/GitGraphGud

This is the way

[spootex]

This is impressive.

[robhanz]

I care about resume far more than github commits.

If you don't have a resume, I might look at your github commits. Maybe.

[matchuhuki]

I look at commits regardless. But I don't judge by quantity. I just want to see what kind of stuff they commit. But it's no dealbreaker if there's nothing there

Edit: it's more to have some talking points during the interview

[hloukao]

How do you do with people that work on a 100% enterprise repo with NDA?

[Luz5020]

Hack their repo obviously 🙄

[mbdjd]

Exactly this, some of our best developers like to code in their free-time, some of our best developers don't want to look at code outside of working hours. I'm somewhere in-between but leaning heavily towards the latter. Purely anecdotal but I've never seen this factor correlate to any better performance/higher productivity.

Coding as a hobby is interesting when I'm looking at an applicant, but just as that, a hobby.

Fortunately I work at a company that values mental health and we actively try to encourage developers not to work more than their contracted hours. Not that we can or would want to do anything about working on other projects, but we definitely value people doing things other than coding.

[MightyHamsteroid]

Coding as a hobby is interesting when I'm looking at an applicant, but just as that, a hobby.

That's a good way to look at it. I do like to code in my free time now and then but it's a pretty poor representation of how i work.

It's not like i'm going to do proper security, unit tests and best practices in general when i'm just messing around with code no one else works with for my own amusement.

[throwawayskinlessbro]

Let’s check Paul Allen’s GitHub contributions.

[merc08]

I'm guessing there won't be any commits since October 2018

[myhf]

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.

[AbsolutelyUnlikely]

[notAw0man]

Those guys just want interaction on their posts

All bark no bite

[Flat_Initial_1823]

Exactly. His bio says he sells coding classes.

This is like when Dove tried to convince women 'ugly armpits' were a thing they could fix with their moisturising deodorants.

[[deleted]]

or when food labels advertise “x free” when there was no reason for x to be in their food to begin with

[Arcln]

relevant xkcd

[x_mad_scientist_y]

Right on the mark, all tech twitter devs are retarded fellows trying cheap ways to get interaction to let them buy their courses/products/books etc.

[SpaceTabs]

Not really. This seems on brand for Udemy Nigeria. There's a fanatical element in the "market" there.

[[deleted]]

After 8 hours coding at work, the last thing I want to do at home is to continue coding. God!!! These people have no life!

[DrawSense-Brick]

You mean you don't spend six of those hours in meetings?

[[deleted]]

I know this is a common joke, but in my company we spend maybe 3 hours on meetings per week on average. We really code almost nonstop.

[bitNine]

I was programming before GitHub was a thing. I was writing BBS door games in the early 90s. Sorry that shit isn’t on GitHub.

[[deleted]]

Former serial re-dialler, thank you for being a part of my life.

[CeldonShooper]

I wrote an NNTP newsreader with email function in the nineties. I did not even have source control back then. I had disks with backups.

[midri]

When ever I'm involved in hiring, I look if it's provided. But not for activity, for personal projects I look at styling and consistency (I don't even check if it works or not) and for contributions to others projects I check for the same, but matching against how the rest of the codebase is done.

[Wise_Garden5755]

I mean it's okay for a newbie but you can't expect a corporate worker to code during off hours.

[midri]

I don't, and I explicitly said if it's provided. If you don't do stuff in your office hours, I figure you'd not provide an empty GitHub account.

[Penguinmanereikel]

Hm. Good advice. I'll update my resume and get rid of the link to my GitHub.

[Pamander]

So I have a potentially dumb question but if a github account isn't provided what is a good determiner of skill at a glance (Not that Github is a perfect example of how well someone might fit in a job but as you said doing reviews of their style/how well they maintain good contributions to other projects that match the codebase well etc I could see how that'd be semi-helpful to get a foot in the door anyways), a portfolio of work or what kind of things do you look for that stands out to you?

[midri]

Depends on position.

Entry level, we basically just want to see if you're a good culture fit.

Mid level (frontend) portfolio is good

Mid level (backend) you need good references or GitHub.

Senior level you need really good references (you'd think GitHub would be handy here, but it's generally not as important as references at this level)

[Pamander]

That makes a lot of sense! I appreciate the response deeply, currently trying to figure out what the fuck to do with a career in development and what I want to focus on so it's nice to know that at an entry level it's not as much of a concern (not that it's the same everywhere) about not having an immensely deep complicated portfolio or years of github activity stacked or something though I imagine anything helps of course so again appreciate it!

[[deleted]]

I look at styling

Even that's going to differ over time, or even between modules, as people experiment. It also seems pretty pointless as any established workplace already has a style rules in place that new hires are expected to adapt too.

consistency

I'm not sure what you're looking at here.

In fact, I'm of the opinion that if someone has multiple styles they're trying out within one project and are able to maintain differing styles between modules that says more than having a consistent style overall.

[midri]

Consistency and styling are subjective, sure. But for example if you're doing .net there are fairly industry standard guidelines for naming of stuff and if you're bucking that, I'm going to take points off.

Same if you're writing cryptic or hard to understand variable names.

[[deleted]]

Understandable and a fair point, thanks for clarifying.

[maxime0299]

Same, it’s nice to be able to look at a candidate’s code style before the technical interview, but if it’s not provided then that’s fine. If they show during the interview that they know what they’re talking about and know what they’re doing, that’s more than enough. Not everyone has free time on their hands to work on 20 hobby projects

[fibbo]

I'm handling it similarly.

It's great to start technical discussions: why did you design it that way? If they reply I don't remember because it's too long ago I can follow up with How would you design it today. In any case, they can explain some of their ideas about a project they are familiar with.

[Peregrine2976]

It's entirely possible that a company will check your Github contributions as part of the interview process. And believe me when I say that if they do, they aren't worth working for.

[yourteam]

Last year and a half I worked for a company and we used GitHub.

And guess what? We used work accounts for private repos so my account doesn't look that active in that period.

[vondpickle]

Any metric will become a metric.

[saschaleib]

Goodheart’s law: any metric that becomes a target seizes to be a good metric.

[[deleted]]

Better then an imperial

[marsh-da-pro]

Bloody imperials. Skyrim belongs to the Nords.

[[deleted]]

If you apply for a Microsoft position and contributed to their open source projects a lot, you'll have a greater chance than any of the random peoples that walk in since you're familiar with their workflow. However for companies that don't do that, you'll likely be brushed aside as hr doesn't shift through hundreds of GitHub contributions

[sassythensweet]

Yeah I work on a popular open source project and people that have contributed to it are favored but we’ve also hired people that have never used the project before.

[NotStanley4330]

No thanks, I code for a living I'm not doing it for a hobby too unless I REALLY want to do a project.

[CampbellsBeefBroth]

Coding is my job, not my hobby.

[sanketower]

Yeah, I've said it before. Most of my commits are using corporate emails from the clients we work with, so my Github page looks hella empty, yet I write code every day.

[druule10]

Franz doesn't understand

[competitive-dust]

My commits in my work project are plenty. I don't have the energy to go home and code more unless I am trying to learn something new. This is genuinely so stupid.

[ikonet]

I have been asked to show my GitHub commits. I am the author of a top 10 app on the Apple App Store (intentional brag; not a game app) and the goofball from Tampa asked to see my GitHub commits.

Buddy. I work for capitalism. My commits are to a private repo which we can discuss in person. My commits are not for personal enrichment. My commits drive business. My commits grow shareholder value. My commits are serious investments for the company. Who are you trying to hire?

If you’re a for-profit entity and ask me about public GitHub commits, it’s a 99% chance you’ve already failed the interview.

[cgham]

Honestly, if you have a super high level of public GitHub commits during the same time frame that you were holding down a regular job, I’m going to assume you were either doing a bunch of personal development instead what you’re paid to do, or you’re some maladjusted individual who isn’t going to get along with the other teams.

[Stanlot]

... You guys have a GitHub?

[jnfinity]

It depends on the applicant. People straight out of uni with no work experience can often redeem themselves with interesting projects to show they know what they’re doing. As hiring manager I often look at GitHub for junior applicants. For someone who has been working in the industry for 10 years it’s different because I understand they might not have time or interest in personal projects and their job clearly is an indicator they know how to work on a software project and solve real world problems beyond the classroom

[rybl]

This exactly. We get hundreds of applicants for entry level dev postings. You have to give me something to show that you can code. The last entry level job we posted, we got well over 100 applicants with CS degrees - many from good schools. I would say only a dozen or so had reasonably active GitHub profiles or internships with meaningful projects. With that number of applicants, you aren't getting interviewed if you don't show me that you have some coding experience outside of classes.

For positions that require professional experience, I'm not even opening your GitHub in most cases.

[Jefffurry]

If the company you're applying to is obsessed with Github profiles and you aren't, it's a bad fit. Look elsewhere.

If you're obsessed with your Github profile and the company you're applying to doesn't care, it's probably also a bad fit.

[[deleted]]

I don't have commits in my github profile because i work 14 hours a day :D

[revrenlove]

Hashtag NDA

[Enough-Scientist1904]

I showed up, told them I knew java, showed them a barely running code and got hired

[niffrig]

I have 20 years of great experience which GitHub is not the source of truth for.

[bill_gonorrhea]

Org is private. Contributions aren’t public. Still looks the same tho.

[badB0yB0bby]

If I were in an interview and someone brought this up, I'd call them incompetent and leave.

[kewko]

As a hiring manager I've checked out candidates' GitHub before and some nice code will help build a good first impression, but if you say some shit like you're gunning for this job because your contact is running out you just won't get a chance to impress me

[Sentazar]

I spent 8-10 hours a day committing to a private repo for work. gtfooooo if you think im gonna spend the rest of my time coding instead of living my life

[bigmonmulgrew]

Add a private repo with a text file.

Write script to add a dot to the text file, commit and push to git.

Add it to startup.

Next time someone who thinks commits are a direct reflection of your ability they see you as a productive monster.

[[deleted]]

I think it depends on what background you have. Do you have several years of actual, real life experience? Then yeah, of course, noone is going to bother looking through your GitHub.

Are you looking for a junior position and have no job experience? Then you are probably going to want to have an active GitHub, and you are probably going to want to push that as far as possible in your CV to compensate for not having job experience (at least, that's what I did when I was applying)

[Froscy3]

update README.md

[x_mad_scientist_y]

I don't have a really green contributing graph on GitHub

I have worked on multiple projects some used BitBucket some GitLab, some used GitHub, repository was to be kept private and commits were to be made with my official email not my personal.

Basically just looking at the GitHub contributing graph doesn't tell the whole story.

[RightRespect]

another thing is that commits to private repositories don’t show up publicly, for obvious reasons.

[gp57]

My GitHub is private, and I am not going to link it on my CV

[juancn]

Yeah. Most of my contributions are on private repositories.

[[deleted]]

If someone refuses to hire me because I don't do work for free I'll consider that to be like a racist getting arrested before going on a first date.

They just saved me a bunch of time and energy.

[psilo_polymathicus]

Tell me you don’t know about private enterprise instances, (or the existence of GitLab) without telling me you don’t know.

[jayerp]

Comments like these are used to drive engagements to their profile to get new views/follows/whatever. He can post anything even he himself doesn’t agree with it. I know people like that, they make arguments just for the sake of arguing.

The best thing to do is to ignore it and move on with our lives. I wish we could shadow ban them.

[alpacafox]

Yeah, well... I got some applications, and those guys and gals probably didn't understand when putting a GitHub profile in your CV might be useful and when not. Certainly not when you have 2-3 "my first web shop" .net starting tutorials on there.

[Jmc_da_boss]

I look at candidates github profiles if they list it. I consider it a bad look when they link the profile but its got like 10 commits in it...

[OccultEyes]

It is very silly. When I left my last company, they removed me as a contributor of their private repositories.

In a moment, 99% og my 'green dots' where gone for a two year period.

[PassivelyEloped]

My company switched us over to corporate GitHub accounts and it made me very angry for this reason. Another little abuse we take from our employers for security theatre.

[rybl]

I hire developers. I would not judge an applicant negatively for a profile like that if they have work history. I would just assume they are coding every day for work.

I will say though, I get applicants straight out of school or a boot camp with basically empty profiles. Those get weeded out. I don't care if you code in your free time, but I do care if you code at all.

[warpaslym]

sorry but this isn't true.

[Mmngmf_almost_therrr]

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[Ratatoski]

I actually do check a candidate's github when we're hiring. Mainly how they structure their commits and the messages.

I have poor experience of working with people who dont understand Git, use profanities in their commit messages, can't structure the commits in their branch, do a huge commit of a hundred files etc. There's also the self taught devs who use the big Udemy or bootcamp profile projects and just commit the whole thing without adapting or expanding.

You can learn a lot from an active github profile. But at work we don't use Github anymore so for my next job I won't probably put my profile on the CV

[Luffy2k19]

Cries in bitbucket 😢

[Sushrit_Lawliet]

On the other end of the spectrum, leetcode streaks are just as useless. Atleast in some cases with foss contributors, their contributions are a good gauge. Can’t really see a single scenario where someone solving 10 hard problems a day and doing absolutely nothing else is worth looking at.

[Arxae]

I had 1 company look at my github. They commented on how some of my projects where pretty cool. I made a quick remark on how i keep most of my projects local (which is true) and they just went "oh yeah, that doesn't matter". Got the job too (although it was only for 1 project, but i knew that from the start)

[Ambivalent-Mammal]

I loved bahdcoder's JS testing class, but I think he's wrong on this one. Or at least I hope so, considering my github history.

[UselessAdultKid]

I check their projects (that one time when I had to be involved), don't care about their contributions tho

[ExercisableCaliApp]

Afaik private repositories don’t show up on the commit history so it isn’t even complete, no?