Comment by mkipper
11 days ago
Is it so hard to believe that someone can be a great candidate in an interview when you're getting 100% of their attention and then be horrible at their job when you're getting 20% of it because they're juggling 5 jobs?
he had no proof he can code, no projects, no github, only hired because he gave them a lowball offer, it was lowball because he was scamming
The OP said he blew interviews out of the water. Presumably they mean technical interviews, that's how he proved he can code. By writing code.
Lots of devs don't have personal projects. I love programming but after spending the whole day programming I don't particularly want to go home and continue programming.
you wouldn't and he wouldn't get past me, lots of devs don't have personal projects? That is a good filter, give me the ones with higher agency that do. Maybe my standards are too high. I usually contribute the most lines at work, and have personal projects that helped get me the job in the first place.
With agentic coding on the rise, it's easier to make a side project after a year of nights and weekends.
Nobody wants to go home and make a project that proves to future employers you can do the job, everybody wants to get paid though.
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Where did you hear this? People on X said the exact opposite.
Technical interviews and answering system design questions do not prove you can code. This is for a founding engineer position. When I started in the industry in 2014, I had to explain the architecture decisions of my side projects. Now people parrot information off the web and call it proof of code.