Initially LinkedIn was just another site where you could find jobs. It was simple to use, simple to connect with others, it even had some nice groups with meaningful discussions.
And then it gain monopoly as the “sole” professional network where you could actually land a job. If you are not on LinkedIn now, you are quite invisible on the job market. Recruiters are concentrated there, even if they have to pay extremely high prices for a premium accounts. The site is horrible now: a social network in disguise, toxic and boring influencers, and a lot of noise and bloated interface to explore.
When Google decided to close their code.google.com, GitHub filled a void. It was a simple site, it was powered by git (not by svn or cvs), and most of the major open source projects migrated there. The interface was simple, and everything was perfect. And then something changed.
GitHub UI started to bloat, all kinds of “features” nobody asked for were implemented, and then the site became a SaaS. Now Microsoft hosts the bulk of open source projects the world has to offer. GitHub become a monopoly. If you dont keep your code there, chances are people wont notice your side projects. It this bothers me.
Rant over. I hate internet monopolies.
herescunty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Show us your GitHub”
Sure, here it is
“Looks empty”
Ya, I code for work, it’s all in private repos.
“So you don’t contribute to open source in your free time?”
No, I spend free time with my family. Again, I code for work, why on earth would I also use my free time for extra coding
“Thanks for your time but…”
Nah thanks for yours, I don’t wanna work for a company that expects me to code for them for for 8 hours and then go and code for someone else for free for more hours. That’s not a healthy work life balance, dickhead.
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.
sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I suspect surgeons doing surgery in their off hours wouldn’t be just weird, but also very creepy.
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?
Aziz-Rahmad645@kbin.social 1 year ago
Well, some people regard coding as a hobby...
REdOG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sysadmining is a lifestyle
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.
aaulia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But not expected, and they may have selfhosted repo at home.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
autokludge@programming.dev 1 year ago
Like this? github.com/taichi/gontributions