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by exline
5569 days ago
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Its a huge plus. We are in the process right now of hiring and that is one of the first things we ask about. Do you have any open source code we can view? This tells us several things about the person 1) They are interested in coding. This was done on their own time, away from work. This means they actually like to code. 2) A lot of work is done to learn a new language/technology. This often shows desire to learn and the ability to at least hack together something that is new to them. This is important because we will be asking them to come up to speed quickly in our code base. 3) You can look at the code and get a feel for how they code. We are a small team and each developer will have the ability to have a big impact (for good or bad). Getting an idea of how they think, how they solve problems is a huge plus. I don't think you need to have a lot of code available. Pick your favorite project, or 'best' project and make it available. I see very little downside. |
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a) I wanted to expand my skill set and work on a language and environment that I don't get to explore in my current job.
b) I want to have something to show potential employers to let them know that I am passionate about development and more than just a 9-5 programmer.
The issue I currently have is that the code is ugly and there are lots of things that I feel I could refactor and clean up. I might always feel this way as I am sure I will never have anything "perfect". I am wanting to get it live within the next few weeks and I think that I will have to accept that I just need to get it live and then focus on improving it after I have had feed back from users etc.