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by morgante 3805 days ago
It doesn't even sound like he interviewed the candidates at all.

> Although I only had the chance to review their personal websites or github profiles and this might of course not be a full show-off of their knowledge, it assured my lately developed opinion on web developers.

Apparently because people's personal projects weren't developed with accessibility in mind he concluded that developers don't know HTML/CSS.
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jotux 3805 days ago
>I only had the chance to review their personal websites or github profiles

>Many are not able to [...] to explain why and how a clearfix works, or what ARIA roles are for

I have only had the chance to review this blog post but this person doesn't seem to be able to explain simple arithmetic, describe the difference between something that is round vs square, or tell me what a spoon is used for.

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Fuxy 3805 days ago
Personal projects are a bit questionable as a skill test.

I've been planning to do a personal site for a long time and wishing i could contribute on github more but most of the time the only contribution on github ends up to be bug fixes to libraries I use at work and I still haven't gotten anywhere with my personal website.

Most of my best code will never be seen by any interviewer since it's done at work.

Now if any of my personal code was making me money that would be different but I have nothing like that at the moment.

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kldavis4 3805 days ago
Agreed. And on top of that, any personal projects I do actually find time to work on are typically pretty rushed (due to the lack of time) and are not going to be the best examples of my work product.

Typically I am just trying to write something quick and dirty to accomplish some task and want to share it in case somebody else might benefit. I'd love to make time to go back and polish things, but rarely do I have the time.

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JeremyMorgan 3805 days ago
I know great, not just good but GREAT developers who don't even have a GitHub. Yes, it's awesome when someone has one, but if someone doesn't have something on their blog or GitHub does that mean they don't know said subject? Nope. I'm questioning the methods used here.
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