DevRant hiring managers - do projects actually matter? Have you really hired someone because of a cool project?

Never hired anyone, but as an interviewee people have gone through my resume pretty thoroughly, including lots of detailed questions about the projects I've done. Dunno if they see the code but I was asked how and why I did what I did.

They sure do help since at least to me it exposes that an individual might have worked on something non trivial on his own time, passion definitely comes into play.

And I do hire people.

I've seen projects used as a much better and reliable alternative to résumés and tests...

Hiring managers should be kicked from devRant. They are unworthy archnemesis of us.

I'm not a hiring manager but I've done plenty of interviews. Yes, to me even more than the resume itself. If you have a github link I'm going to be checking that first, too.

@aviophile so you're assuming that it's impossible for a hiring manager to be/have been a developer or have developer things to rant about?

Also I'd commend recruiters, hiring managers, HR, etc. coming here to find out what developers hate or care about!

@aviophile Uhh why. You mean recruiters? Recruiters and hiring managers aren't inherently the same person.

@junon No, I mean all people in these kinds of professions where they set requirements for and assess the skills of developers; they shouldn't be banned as much as lauded for an effort to understand how an area of focus for them work...

And it's an even worse presenting ourselves as elitist that see someone in another professions as "our unworthy archnemesis" ... That to me would be a world view unworthy of recognition...