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Discussion on: 10 Mistakes you probably also made in your coding task for a new job Part 1

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Johannes

The "perfect" project thing was a joke. What I mean is, if you have a heap of really messy projects in your repository that you show off to someone who is considering to hire you, they will see them and they will judge you on it.

If a repository is old and not maintained, it's a lot less important in this sense, but if you have a project that you are actively working on in which every commit message looks like "fixxxxx", or "f**k it!" or similar, I wouldn't recommend showing it of.

I like to look at peoples repository history when I intend to work with them, that way you can get a quite good idea on how they work and where they are strong and weak in their knowledge.