I’ve been shipping software, my entire adult life (over 30 years).
Kind of hard to fake.
That’s one reason that I was so blindsided by what I encountered, when I was looking for work, a few years ago.
I had an enormous library of finished, high-quality, polished, complete work, already in the public venue; but people were only interested in small, impractical, competitive exercises.
It didn’t take me long to realize that it was more important to consider people who “played the game,” than it was, those that could provably deliver product.
So I stopped looking, and went to work with some folks that couldn’t afford to pay me, but were interested in actually delivering software.
Kind of hard to fake.
That’s one reason that I was so blindsided by what I encountered, when I was looking for work, a few years ago.
I had an enormous library of finished, high-quality, polished, complete work, already in the public venue; but people were only interested in small, impractical, competitive exercises.
It didn’t take me long to realize that it was more important to consider people who “played the game,” than it was, those that could provably deliver product.
So I stopped looking, and went to work with some folks that couldn’t afford to pay me, but were interested in actually delivering software.