GitHub & job interviews

>>61417860
>Have you had this happen?
Yes, recruiters frequently come across my GitHub and send me an email asking if I'm available for a talk over the phone.

>Did it help you get a job?
I already have a job, so no, not yet. But if I was actively looking, I guess it would.

>What sort of projects do you have on there?
A LOT of crap, but also some work-related stuff. Some TCP and libpcap stuff, some CUDA stuff, some driver stuff, some FizzBuzz Java crap, project Euler, a PHP microframework I wrote ages ago etc

>>61417944
Is it just connected to you by name or are you linking to it from LinkedIn?

>>61417963
Just by name. But I use the same email for both, and I guess the recruiter version of LinkedIn has some more advanced search functionality.

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>>61417860
>java

I never had a github account. Maybe I'm just one of the lucky ones that managed to get jobs and got enough experience to keep having jobs, but it takes some effort exaggerating and bullshitting my experience just to get those jobs.

I dunno really what to make with java. Only a niche of people make stuff using swing nowadays, much less the new java fx. There's lots of better tools to make a front end web app just for portfolio purposes. My entire career is just developing for enterprise, corporate boring crap. My interview experiences are at this point are either talking about experience, talking about theories and book stuff (muh OOP) and the occasional gimmicky trivia types of test like doing fizzbuzz or fibonacci , which I mostly fail.

I thought of doing an android app, but github doesn't really beat the actual years of experience that hr wants from you and how strong your resume is from actual work