Comment on is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn

herescunty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• quantum_mechanic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d love to see recruiters who recruit in their free time, or surgeons who perform surgery in their free time.

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  • sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …or surgeons who perform surgery in their free time.

    I suspect surgeons doing surgery in their off hours wouldn’t be just weird, but also very creepy.

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    • quantum_mechanic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I suppose this happens already, with there being a black market for human organs after all.

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    • ndotb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can think of surgeon examples but I’ve never heard of Recruiters Without Borders. Unless it’s just CapGemini

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  • custom_situation@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    there are tons of developers and technical folks that still find it fun and enjoyable to work on personal projects.

    i mean, how else do you build new skills or gain familiarity without stuff you don’t use at work?

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    • cliffhanger407@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s called a hobby. And hobbies are great and lots of fun.

      Monetizing hobbies turns them back into a job.

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      • custom_situation@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “programming” is so broad though. surely there’s room to have it be both work and a hobby ?

        i mean, it is for me and lots of folks i know.

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    • hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i mean, how else do you build new skills or gain familiarity without stuff you don’t use at work?

      Woodshedding. I can not learn as fast if I’m weighed down by the idea that every piece of code I check-in needs to be production ready.

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Easy. Just don’t work at work and read articles on hackernews instead.

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• Aziz-Rahmad645@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, some people regard coding as a hobby...

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  • REdOG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sysadmining is a lifestyle

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  • philm@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah absolutely I quickly get bored playing a computer game or something, but I just love coding (in Rust obviously ^^), creating new things etc.

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  • aaulia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But not expected, and they may have selfhosted repo at home.

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• sip@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get where you come from. I don’t code after work much, but if nobody did, there wouldn’t be much OSS. As for that interviewer, he’s a dickhead.

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• ndotb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fintech is easy to deal with in this regard.

  “do you have code samples you can share?”

  “would you be happy if an employee interviewed elsewhere and used your codebase for work samples?”

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• TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What they’re asking for is a public portfolio.

  Obviously, you can’t give them code that legally belongs to a past employer and they’re not allowed to look to avoid accusations of copyright infringement.

  Especially if they do any reverse-engineering for interoperability, there must be zero suspicion that they were inspired by code they’re not allowed to use.

  This is where open source contributions under permissive licenses come in.

  Something shown to work in a real project is also viewed better than out of context code snippets.

  When you’re essentially saying you have nothing to show them, you’re indistinguishable from someone who actually has nothing and is lying about their skills, so the onus is on the interviewers to vet you, which for various reasons may not be possible, so they’d rather just move on to someone with a clearly proven track record.

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  • hellishharlot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ok but the original point still stands. Coding outside of work and at work is poor work life balance. Even my own projects I do are to learn not solve an actual problem in the world with code.

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• custom_situation@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you can show activity without showing the details of the activity. which is at least demonstrating you’re active.

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  • autokludge@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like this? github.com/taichi/gontributions

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