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RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 7 months ago
Let’s say you are applying for an engineering position and you want to mention that you contribute to an open source project. Mention the software stack used, maybe the number of downloads, and your focus on the project. Explain it in general terms. If it gets asked about in the interview, just answer questions without providing the name of the project.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
As an interviewer, a lot of the value I get out of the accomplishment is that I can look at the PR and see what the applicant is like. That would be diminished if they refused to link to the project.
RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 7 months ago
I hear you, and that’s great if it’s something the applicant wants to share. But none of the development work they’ve done at previous companies is work that they’ll be able to share. We take their word on that work. Not taking their word in the same way on other projects seems like a bit of a double standard to me.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I wouldn’t call it a double standard:
Work done at other companies is usually property of those companies. If the applicant tells me they’ve done work in the public domain, I’d like to see it, unless there’s a reason they can’t (mostly licensing, or if it’s for a project my company may not want to be associated with).