So far everyone saying "yes" has anecdotes from the beginnings of a career that started a while ago. Website or not, it was easier to get hired then. Has anyone's website gotten them hired in the last 1-2 years?
I made a portfolio website and had some projects on it. The projects got me hired but the portfolio website itself didn’t. Again, this was for my first post-college job. I shouldn’t have needed portfolio projects but even ten years ago - hiring for new grads was incredibly hard. It took me about nine months to land my first post grad job and another nine months to land my second. I had done 15 onsites to get my second offer! It has never been easy to get a job in this field in the last decade.