On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> 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.
Maybe not GitHub, but something else. Do you have, anywhere on the internet, a list of demo-worthy projects? Again drawing from the students I work with, they're encouraged to build an actual portfolio web site. Granted, they *are* full stack web developers, so this may not be applicable to everyone, but still, it's independent of GitHub. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
