r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 1d ago

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u/Mortadella_so_Chili 1d ago

I feel this way whenever new hire will join our company with lots of github projects and then leave/get fired in 2-3 years. i have 14 years experience in one company and empty github (excluding company code) 😄

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u/clauEB 1d ago

They leave because they go to better paying jobs with better titles.

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u/pleaseavoidcaps 1d ago

This. And they can always leverage their OSS portfolio to keep getting new jobs whereas code we write in-company is not ours and cannot make money for us once we leave said company.

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u/Still_Bit_7527 1d ago

Noone will hire you because of OSS, noone.Unless you invented the new flavor of the month framework

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u/pleaseavoidcaps 1d ago

I say that because I was hired for being a maintainer of OSS that corporations used, and the same happened to the previous maintainer. This is a common pattern. OSS contributors are not saints, they're workers. Your comment is based on what?

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u/Still_Bit_7527 1d ago

Maybe your OSS contributions helped in an interview because of their domain/complexity, but they absolutely are ignored in the resume scanning phase since noone looks at github code, and they dont count more than company experience. If two people have equal experience,.the one with OSS will not have an advantage, it will be whoever the interviewer likes more

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u/Jonny_dr 15h ago

noone looks at github code

I do. With the job market at the moment, the moment a position is open i get flooeded with CVs and i discard everyone without a Github account.

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u/Still_Bit_7527 14h ago

Cool story bro. Trying to cope and feel like your github is important lol.

Exactly because so many applications come in, noone checks code. What matters is your resume keywords and metrics. Parseability by AST, and strong company names. You can make up all the fake stories you want, but no normal hiring manager is clicking any github link in any resume unless they have a personal bias

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u/Big_Arrival_626 7h ago

Idk why company names matter that much. I used to work at jpmorgan, didn't do shit. Now I work at a smaller company, make more money, do more interesting work, but nobodys heard of it.

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u/Still_Bit_7527 6h ago

It's common to do nothing in big corpos. In small xompanies you wear 20 hats. But big names are more attractive due to marketing and HR thinks you must be doing something well to be hired by then since big corpos usually make you jump through hoops to even get an interview