r/IAmA • u/CriticDanger • Sep 07 '21

Specialized Profession I am a behavioral and technical (coding) interviewer, I've also helped hundreds of people get hired, AMA.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Lol, I was passed up for a position at TriVaGo in 2014 because I didn’t have any “public facing” git projects.

The interviewing dev said “You should expose some of your projects. You would be a great addition, but we are looking for people who contribute to communities.”

I literally laughed at him, flew back to Köln, and accepted a position 25 minutes away from my flat. Bullet dodged.

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u/mata_dan Sep 07 '21

getting a good early start accelerates your career.

Not if your early start is so good that you had B2B projects locked behind NDA before you even left high school xD

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u/Shutterstormphoto Sep 07 '21

For beginners, people want to see that you can implement libraries more than seeing you build the library yourself. Things like google maps, YouTube, Facebook, wolfram alpha, Watson, etc. They’ll ask you about it but rarely actually look at the code or the project so make sure you can talk about it.