When in a Job - ad they say: 4 years of experience in JS do they mean 4 years in a job???

Jquery.

@leviwhalen is that also needed??

@linuxer4fun not necessarily, it's just what you probably would have used in JS four years ago. 😉

In some companies it is jobs, other accept documented proff of hobby.

@Doehl howto prove that? Taking photos of me infront of a js???

Link to your repositories on github.

@Doehl i will create a new js framework and link to it in 4 years. 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈

@Doehl oh i have an idea to fake 4 years of experience: make some genuine github repos, and then edit the git history to make it look like the repo exists since 4 years ago. I heard that is possible through git.

@darksideplease It sounds like you think that employees take your words for good. (And there may be)

First, all the job interviews I have been in, have I been tested in my core knowledge of my repositorys.

Second, they don't only look at the quality of you code, but also how you got there. Because it is often harder to change a persons lazy work processes, then learning them to write better code. So if they see a no or very little commit history, believe my a good company will have you to explain your bad work process.

And you do know that github is also a code search engine right? So if the repository you stoll is on there, they could quickly know if they check you. (That is what we do at my work place, if we see suspicious repositorys)

And at last, remember you have to live up to the code in your repositories. Or you will been gone in a heartbeat. Simply because you are not the developer, you created the picture of.

Why try to show you as someone you ain't. Most the time you get way longer being who you are, then who you try to be.

And it is so much more fun to create code then steal code, otherwise do you have the wrong job.

@Doehl you assume many things in your statements. I never wrote about stealing or not knowing stuff. The problem in this case i want to solve is that even if someone is a really good javascript dev, he/she would still have to be doing it since 4 years ago. I also never said that the commits would be sparse, no. I am talkink about genuine reoositories. Yeah, it needs work, but this is the programmer equivalent to scientific papers.

@darksideplease sorry I read "make" as "take", in your comment.

Where I live, it is illegal to but false information on your CV. So if you say you have 4 year of experience in for example JS, by linking to a "fake" repository as prove. Where you have changed the commit dates, to gain fake experience time. That makes your CV a forgery. And forgery dokuments here can be punished with jail up to 2 years.

And yes there have been example in the news of big fines, and even jail time for forgery CV.

@Doehl impressive! Didn't knew this is a thing. Yeah it is not a clean way of getting a job, but let's say a genius who didn't do js 4 years ago but does very well now wants to get a job in this field. In that case this seems to be the only solution to me instead of just *waiting* 4 years so he/she can apply for that job.