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我們稍為作了市場調研，發現這裡本地人都很喜歡喝茶，平均每人每天2-3杯。
Portfolios aren’t really a thing among professional programmers. As an interviewer, I consider an application leaning on portfolios to be a sign of someone who has zero real professional experience.
Companies, as a rule, do not let you share source, or even images of internal projects (as another poster suggested). The reasons for this should be fairly obvious. As a result, most professionals don’t have much of a portfolio. They just have projects they can talk about.
Perhaps more importantly, a professional’s ‘portfolio’ wouldn’t tell you much. Why? Because real software is built by teams not individuals, and the real valuable skills are not in details of code, but in communication, collaboration, flexibility and learning.
Let’s say you work for a terrible team. The application you work on will be terrible, no matter your skills. Conversely, let’s say you work with John Skeet and Kenneth Reitz. Your app will be clean and well designed, even if you peesonally had little to do with it. Teams win. Until I see your skills live, all I know is what you’ve worked on, not how good you are.
Of course, even if you are a great coder, it still doesn’t tell me much. Unless you are junior, I am not hiring you to code. I am hiring you to build software. And building software is only about 20% coding. The remaining 80% is communication, persuasion, estimation, planning, teamwork, learning, empathy, humility, flexibility and other ‘soft’ skills.
As far as I can tell, the idea of using programming ‘portfolios’ in job hunts was invented by colleges. Colleges are famously bad at teaching students how to find jobs. I have no idea why. But if their advice is bad for students, it is terrible for professiona