Made a Page, Got the Job
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- ohhhhhsnap0
How's your new city treating you?
- RIZ0
awesome - well done!
- ideaist0
Fortune favours the bold, shit head...
; )
- ohhhhhsnap0
http://www.alistapart.com/articl…
"A DIY HTML résumé shows potential employers how much you love what you do, which can never hurt your chances."
....hmmmm
- akrok0
pff. don't work on my atari with netscape. bad, bad, bad. oh, is that donuts. congrats on the new gig. ;-)
- "is that donuts"
hehe, learned a new phrase. i see what you did there.ohhhhhsnap
- "is that donuts"
- kona0
Wow, I wasn't expecting the amount of emails or tweets concerning my response. So just to be clear...
Yeah I think it's nicely done. It's creative, bold and goes above and beyond the prototypical way 99.9% of us have gone about getting a job. It took initiative, guts and a fair amount of savvy to pull it off. He took something so innocuous and flipped it on it's head turning it into something cool. He's got spunk and thinks outside of the box.
The code is shit? Who fucking cares. This new company will teach him how to code and in what, 1 month... 3 months... his code will be bulletproof. Teaching code is easy.
You know what's hard to teach? Everything I mentioned in the first paragraph above. That's why I said good job. I would have hired him in a heartbeat too.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Congrats! Nice idea!
But I also agree with albums and others that its very surprising that you didn't do the standard cross browser checks, particularly given your experience and the position applied for. You got the job so its not a problem, just learn from it and enjoy your new job! :)
And the people who call album negative for pointing this out are ridiculous. If you apply for a web job and your site doesn't work, I think it's fair enough to point it out.
Fyi on my phone the site displays incorrectly, showing the code.
- meffid0
Links should open in new tabs.
- haha. what?studderine
- +albums
- Target blank mother fucker.Hombre_Lobo
- Salarrue0
Congrats...
I thought the thread was about this http://motherboard.vice.com/2012…
- robotron3k0
congrats but, um. front end dev usually get work easily.
- ohhhhhsnap0
nice idea bro. Congrats!
- qoob0
Someone explain to me why it shows a backwards page of code in Windows.
- lobstarr0
not bad! now i hope you didn't get shit pay!
- moldero0
I dig it.
- CanHasQBN0
You didn't even check it in Windows?
Fine, don't check it in ie6, whatever. But to not even check how it performs in Windows (any modern Windows browser) is just lazy as hell.
How can you ramble on about caring so much about the details, and yet you don't even bother to check it across platforms? So what if the people looking at it use Macs... you should've made sure this worked in Windows to demonstrate your capability to code for more than just OSX, because last time I checked there are a shit load of people out there who still use Windows.
Anyway, congrats on the job. I don't mean to be cynical about this. I was just shocked when I saw how nice it looked at first and then all these screenshots show up of how much it screwed up. I don't understand how you can not even consider testing it on Windows... even out of curiosity.
- whatthefunk0
I've been using a very boxy grid approach to my resume and I've always supplied people with both a traditional 1 page resume as well as a unique/designed resume b/c I could get more info into the unique one. I've also always put these docs on my server and provided links so they can view online (without an attachment) or print out if needed.
- Fax_Benson0
Well done on the job-getting. I could imagine this method becoming standard practice soon.
- aaux0
Other than the standard "this really should work in at least IE9" stuff, I'm not sure what is so creative about a front-end developer creating a web page to show their work. If I was hiring and they sent me anything other than an actual working site I would toss it in the bin.
- dirtydesign0
Clever idea. Congrats.
- tymeframe0
Congrat's man. Jealous of your new gig.