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My github account was brought up in a recent technical interview. The hiring manager felt that my account lacked professionalism because I had several >= 1 year old, unfinished repositories.


That is... bizarre. He should look at the abandoned internal repos of the average software company's experiments and realign his expectations with reality.


Amen, not every github project turns into a popular OS project.


Maybe he thought it was a dedicated portfolio repo rather than just "this is where I keep my stuff"?


I think that was their thought process. My personal Github is a bit of a graveyard/dumping ground but I saw this as a wakeup call and got rid of a bunch of forked repos and combined some unfinished projects into other repos.




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