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"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal
by BeaverGoose 9mo ago
"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal
- tigerlily 9mo agoI had to go back and look. Absolutely skewered it.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 9mo agoAs someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)
- wting 9mo agoAs a hiring manager that visited every resume Github link because of my FOSS background, >99% of them had nothing of substance (no activity, school projects, etc).
- abhaynayar 9mo agomaybe not the recruiter but the hiring manager or prospective colleagues who'll interview you later? not the number of stars, but I like looking what people have done online ie GitHub/blog. I feel like it is a nice thing to talk about. I know it's an unpopular opinion these days cause everyone wants work life balance and not work beyond the office but it's always nice to see projects you've worked on it does show some interest. also while one can fake GitHub activity it's hard to fake well thought out and cared for projects. it's easier to fake metrics from your previous jobs like I saved X amount of money for the company or had Y efficiency gains.
- fvcffcdddfcfff 9mo ago[dead]
- Svoka 9mo agoI hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.
- abtinf 9mo agoYes, developer/platform advocacy/evangelism.
- minimaxir 9mo agoIt's a quick signal that the developer is capable of writing and maintaining code that can be used by many others.
- stronglikedan 9mo agoOr that they're just a person who knows how to game stars. As Goodfart says, "When a measure becomes a target, it gets gamed beyond usefulness."
- minimaxir 9mo agoAlthough commits can be gamed on GitHub, stars are significantly harder to game as they require human accounts to be doing so. You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.
- skylurk 9mo agoI would not be surprised if you can buy quite a lot of them for cheap.
- nurettin 9mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140 > This package costed me 8.19 Euros for 100 stars which is €0.08/star. Shoot for the stars, I guess.
- latexr 9mo ago> You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars. It’s not only feasible, it’s trivial. https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-sta...
- Agentlien 9mo agoI have a few blog posts which have received only about ~250 upvotes across different communities, plus a GitHub project with just 30 stars. Still, both of these were really interesting to my future colleagues (not the recruiter) who interviewed me in the last round of the interviews which landed me my current job. They had read them ahead of time and it really shaped the technical part of the interview.
- Sesse__ 9mo agoI've had recruiters be “impressed by my GitHub profile”, when I didn't have a single project on my GitHub profile.
- nurettin 9mo agoI was contacted by a spanish HR agency, they said that my github contained code that they considered an outlier and would like to forward some job applications. Never heard of them since. Maybe scraping github for talent isn't good business.
- kgwxd 9mo agoIs that the title it gave itself? Edit: Oh no, that was for the repo I actually stared before seeing this. I'm just learning Go :)
- nmz 9mo agoThe future is now
- ekropotin 9mo agoI have to admit, that one hurts
- Lockal 9mo agoShould be: "New account spams HN with AI generated slop (emojis included), third attempt"