I know that some (most?) recruiters and HMs don’t look at your github. But for those who do, what do you want to see in there? What impresses you the most?
Is there anything you do NOT like to see on GH? Any red flags?
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It’s a red flag if all I see is Titanic passengers, penguins, and irises.
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Would you be interested in numbers?
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Would you be interested in numbers?
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HM here and no because most candidates are working in company owned GitHubs and I don’t expect people to do personal projects unless they are juniors trying to break into the field. My company actually forbids us from creating personal apps and other things while employed as it might be competitive or a conflict of interest. I’m sure other companies have this too so again it’s not really fair to judge a personal GitHub when most of their work isn’t there.
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In fact, my employer prohibits us from developing personal applications and other stuff.
It must be awful to be unable to produce anything else.
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The majority of organizations have a policy that states they control the intellectual property of anything you develop while working there, but as I said, it’s not everything—it’s largely app creation. Therefore, the majority of people wouldn’t actually want to work in this field on personal projects while they were working. Personally, I don’t feel depressed about it at all because I don’t need to code after work and I have other interests.