[yoklov]

FWIW, In the games industry it's fairly common practice to totally ignore anything a potential programmer made in a game jam (unless they carried it on afterwards).

Feels somewhat equivalent, even though it's probably for different reasons.

[kevinwang]

Why is it that it's common practice to ignore anything made in a game jam?

[yoklov]

What ryanthejuggler said is true (and mainly why even impressive ones aren't worth much), but mainly because game jam projects are usually unimpressive and made of gluing a bunch of things together.

Totally ignore is probably stronger than I mean, I take a look, but I don't think it's ever strongly effected my decision.

I also can't speak for the entire industry, this is just what I've seen where I've worked.

[ryanthejuggler]

Considering "he lacked the attention span" in GolfyMcG's comment, it shows the dev can create, but doesn't demonstrate any long-term follow-through or team dynamics.