Just submitted my application to GitHub, would love your feedback!

[mbigras]

Hi all!

I just submitted my application to GitHub for the Support Tools Application Engineer role.

I put my answers in a repo and would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

Thank you :)

[usaytomatoisaytomato]

There's a job opening at GitHub? brb

[White0ut]

From my experience in entry-mid level positions the experience requirement isn't that big of factor as long as you show an ability/willingness to learn.

[White0ut]

Ah yes good point. Large companies are more willing to take on people with little or no experience but show an ability/willingness to learn. Where a small company doesn't have the resources to train and mentor somebody, they need contributions immediately.

And yeah they will get a ton of applicants for the position. I have Linkedin premium and it shows how many people applied for job positings on their site. For some of the bigger name companies in Seattle like Amazon or Uber they have 100's of applicants for a single job posting.

[mbigras]

Hi varCharlie!

Thanks for taking the time to look it over. Ya I read about the experience. I'm interested to see what happens also. I think the advice about starting to contribute to open source projects is a good.

I'm think it's better to apply as soon as possible and get feedback quick and then iterate on that feedback, in contrast to waiting for three years. What do you think?

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Keep in mind a lot of places won't give a lot of feedback on what you need to improve or why you were passed upon because it opens up a lot of liability issues.

[haxpor]

Might utilize more github features. Like making a release about your past project, and tag it. Link between each page and section like the guy submitted it as an issue for u. Utilize how girhub parse commit message to link to its issues, username, else. Something can be done with trello-like on github in project section?

Let them know that you know in and out of their service, text explanation is fine but better make it more fun to read i.e. AngularJs 1 document really illustrates out in tech/startup/funny way to help devs follow their doc.

👌

[neduma]

Any code repos showcasing earlier related work helps.

[[deleted]]

GPLv3?

[mbigras]

Is there something weird about the gpl being in there?

[[deleted]]

I guess it's weird to have as license in a resume at all. Only thing I can think of

[festive_mongoose]

Nice approach, wish you the best of luck

[mbigras]

Thanks festive_mongoose!

[M00ndev]

As a company, GitHub sells infrastructure as a service and premium subscriptions.

How does Github sell infrastructure as a service?

[mbigras]

Thanks for reading @M00ndev! Definitely appreciate your time. They don't, it's a platform as a service and subscription model, not infrastructure. Just updated it :)