I'd hire developer 1 for sure. I've never understood the idea that someone may be worse because they are employed and all the code they write is good enough to be paid for by someone else and thus can't be posted publicly for anyone to take.
I agree but it's probably worth noting that those who come from developer group #1 probably won't have to demonstrate Github repo's or blogs anyway, because the large companies that they are working for don't really care about that the way the smaller upstarts do.
A lot of people feel that most of the better developers code in their free time as well as for work. Whether or not you accept that premise, it should at least make sense how you get from that to expecting people to have some code to show.
Premise understood. Note that it's also fair to consider the better developers code in their free time and sell it.
Fair arguments on all sides. Crux of the problem is that what we do as developers is valuable enough that others will pay good money to own it outright, leaving us with no publicly-viewable portfolio.
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I'd hire developer 1 for sure. I've never understood the idea that someone may be worse because they are employed and all the code they write is good enough to be paid for by someone else and thus can't be posted publicly for anyone to take.
I agree but it's probably worth noting that those who come from developer group #1 probably won't have to demonstrate Github repo's or blogs anyway, because the large companies that they are working for don't really care about that the way the smaller upstarts do.
A lot of people feel that most of the better developers code in their free time as well as for work. Whether or not you accept that premise, it should at least make sense how you get from that to expecting people to have some code to show.
Premise understood. Note that it's also fair to consider the better developers code in their free time and sell it.
Fair arguments on all sides. Crux of the problem is that what we do as developers is valuable enough that others will pay good money to own it outright, leaving us with no publicly-viewable portfolio.