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by WD-42
532 days ago
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I’ve done plenty of hiring and I definitely do look at personal profiles and websites. In fact it’s the first thing I look at after experience. I can also say that a personal project of mine was a huge factor in landing a previous job. Showing competency and interest in the industry you are applying for goes a long way. Sorry your “open source” contributions didn’t get you far. I looked at your examples and it appears to be niche documentation for AWS services, so basically all in the service of amazon? Cool. |
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https://github.com/orgs/aws-samples/repositories?type=all
I purposefully didn’t call out my 8.
The “AWS Solution” that I was one of the top 3 contributor to has at least 2700 people/organizations who downloaded it and I know it’s used by at least 8 state agencies - I implemented it for four agencies when I was at AWS.
Every single one of my other projects were used as part of real world six and seven figure implementations.
You think in today’s market where every req has hundreds of applications they are going to take the time to look at open source projects?
I didn’t need to nor do I have any desire to work on open source work or any other projects related to computers when I get off of work. I haven’t written a line of code that I didn’t get paid for since graduating from college in 1996.