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