Do you know that most Backend Engineers doesn't have portfolio because almost all the work is not accessible to the public via internet?
what do you think about this? am I missing something?
what do you think about this? am I missing something?
We're not looking for engineers that purely do work for their employer and then turn it off when they head home. Since this will be our ~8th employee, they need to be ready to really dive into the work, and those people tend to have a portfolio. Of course, I'm open to people without one - there needs to be a stronger pitch than just a resume.
Hopefully that makes sense!
In my case I worked on several side projects, i.e: https://itkdb.com and https://github.com/pedrohidalgo/pleasure
But the quality of my open source and side projects can't be compared to the quality of my daily job because of time and resources issues. So I still think that my portfolio as a backend developer won't be good enough because the awesome work is closed source and webapps are not accessible to the outside world.
When you say: "there is usually something they've done at work they can discuss" then you're not talking about portfolio.
Thanks again!