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I wouldn't be comfortable sharing code I wrote for a previous employer because I treat that as confidential. I'd be happy to show my personal code with the understanding that it tends to be improvisational and done a bit more casually than production code. But along the way I'm sure I'd show enthusiasm discussing the architecture of my personal projects as well as my home infrastructure: everything running on VMs, control panels, private git server, Jenkins, and everything deployed to containers.


I'm pretty sure your previous employer also treats its code as confidential.

The premise of this post is indeed terrible.


I personally wouldn't share code written for anyone other than myself as part of a hiring process.

However, my understanding is that it is very common for code samples from current or former employers to be shared in interviews.

There's an unsaid understanding that it is not technically allowed, but I've also yet to hear that it has interfered with a potential hire.

I don't have a lot of data points on this, so if anyone else with experience doing hiring at SV unicorns can chime in, I am curious.


Counterpoint to line 1, there are lots of companies where you are beings paid to contribute to open source.

Line 2 is entirely correct.




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