Always. Online portfolios and GitHub accounts are a great resource for judging programming skills before a phone screening.
In the interview(s) you do have to drill down to tease out exactly what they did in that project. The real test of skills, though, ultimately comes down to how you answer the knowledge questions and perform on the live-coding exercises in the interview. I've conducted about 30 interviews in the last 5 years and it is really surprising how many people have impressive stories of stuff they've worked on but do poorly at basic knowledge questions or simple coding exercises. But yes, visiting links is one of the three things I do as part of reviewing each resume: 1. Look through your GitHub account 2. Visit any links you provide 3. Review your LinkedIn profile - Ken On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Kevin Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Question for those of you that hire—when you are looking through resumes, > CVs and portfolios, how often do you *actually* look up a web link? > > By that I mean, if I list a url on my resume to my portfolio or landing > page, would you take the time to look it up? > > Thanks in advance! > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
