Thanks a lot for the feedback and sharing your insights. Really fascinating.
I'm curious now. Is this advice also valid for developers without professional experience? And if you don't provide any proof of your technical skills how can you convince a hiring manager of giving you a shot?
So there are two things that it comes down to for me.
First, the interview is where your skills are measured. The resume and all those things provide a strong indication that you'd be a good fit. No amount of portfolio or github replaces that, so thats why they're still secondary materials.
Second, for folks starting off with no previous dev experience, unless they've never worked anywhere they actually DO have experience, just not paid development experience. So their resumes and everything emphasize how they still can deliver results regardless of their environment, and their technical skills is yet another way they can do that.
Its that last sentence that makes the difference. If we reduce ourselves to a collection of technical skills we actually don't have value for companies and teams. The magic is connecting our effort to results.
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Thanks a lot for the feedback and sharing your insights. Really fascinating.
I'm curious now. Is this advice also valid for developers without professional experience? And if you don't provide any proof of your technical skills how can you convince a hiring manager of giving you a shot?
So there are two things that it comes down to for me.
First, the interview is where your skills are measured. The resume and all those things provide a strong indication that you'd be a good fit. No amount of portfolio or github replaces that, so thats why they're still secondary materials.
Second, for folks starting off with no previous dev experience, unless they've never worked anywhere they actually DO have experience, just not paid development experience. So their resumes and everything emphasize how they still can deliver results regardless of their environment, and their technical skills is yet another way they can do that.
Its that last sentence that makes the difference. If we reduce ourselves to a collection of technical skills we actually don't have value for companies and teams. The magic is connecting our effort to results.