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by verdverm 506 days ago
Totally, it's good to have projects or a portfolio, it's not so much to have marketing & payment pages or look like it's an early startup
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it cuts both ways! it is hard to find engineers who are self-motivated to think about product, customers, and conversion. this project gives the candidate strong credibility there.

I have also been burnt with employees leaving to start their own thing, but that's more the exception compared to engineers who don't deliver much value because they're not actually interested in building stuff or only interested in the programming part of building stuff.

We programmers certainly come in a lot of varieties!