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Im not going to lie to you, I have no software development experience nor an interest in becoming one. i just find your critique and videos containing ur particular dry humour, hilarious. Good vids mate.
Appreciate you
@@JoshuaFluke1 anybody catch this?
"Talk to the sock"
I just deployed my WIP portfolio on git and after I watched this video I saw that my portfolio is just bad. Reworking it starting from tomorrow. Very helpful video thank you!
🤣🤣 I am at the exact same spot.
I'm actually curious how that guy managed to make a website that breaks when it gets too big. Too small is one thing but too big is a new one for me.
OmegaDungeon Probably all the CSS is wrapped in media queries and he didn't have one going over 2000px, so no CSS applies. Not sure why he'd do it like that but that's the only thing that comes to mind.
@@slobodankustrimovic2538 I think so as well. That kind of coding screams "Chill, get back to the basics, take it slow, everything will be alright".
I guess that's why they are called "break points"
@@Ayoub_Himself I'm not drunk enough for this joke
@@BrodieRobertson I was drunk enough to write it
just found gordan ramsey of web development
where?
IT'S ROTTEN!!!
@@WillyGrippo *IT'S OUTDATED!
Who’s “Gordan” is he a mythical Greek chef?
Could you create a portfolio video of one's you think are job ready? Keep up the grind, much love!
This would be great
Thank you Joshua for reviewing my portfolio! I really appreciate it! Thank you so much! :)
Just a few tweaks and youre good to go!
Not gonna lie, your portfolio reviews are really helping me improve my own portfolio. A lot of helpful tips in these 👌🏿
Same here. Love this man
I got a job out of college with very little for a portfolio,
a basic Android app, some blog articles on SQL in Java... that was it.
nothing easily accessible like this.
Nothing nearly as nice as these!
Competition has gotten fierce and I am glad to know what im up against.
... that was only 5 year ago guys.
well , gotta get to work!
You're up against someone that made a calculator in Java and a weight converter? Yeah alright...
I don't think you have to worry :)
If you have a CS degree, you have nothing to fear.
Watching this it seems that the US has a significantly different hiring culture to the UK. Apart from the one where it just... objectively doesn't work, they're all job ready for a junior job. Key word being junior - the point is that you'd expect that a junior wouldn't get everything right, wouldn't know everything, would need mentoring on a lot. It seems to me that US companies expect perfection from their juniors.
This is a huge reason why many of us don't even bother going for a tech job. I've been programming for 20 years, know C++, C#, .net, VB, PHP, mySQL, html, css, javascript, Photoshop, Maya, Unity, Qt, Fl Studio, Handbrake, the list goes on... but still feel inadequate for a job. There are so many things I could do in a web design company from video to music for video, graphic design, etc. Oh well.
Thanks Josh for reviewing my Portfolio. The trello clone I built it with a group of remote developers. We used react for the project and used a library for the drag and drop functionality.
Most probably you used Atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd (github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd), which is actually the library the real Trello uses. Great Work, though!
Pretty cool what you did there
Really liking your videos man. I'm in Data Analytics and not Software Engineering/Development but most of what you're saying applies to me as well. Love the honesty, love the wisdom. It's so important that people learn to market themselves properly. Your advice on prioritizing work-life balance is also incredibly good. Burnout is real. Keep it up.
Awesome, thank you, glad it helps
Beyond getting the conversation, so much is personality.
Hey Josh, i followed some of your videos and i did get a job! I plan on making a vídeo for you, showing you my new cv and portafolio all Made with your videos and show my new place,my software developer job and my personal experience leaded by your videos. I really woulndt make it without your guidence. Thanks Josh, greetings from Argentina.
Man, please do more of those.
I'm loving these grindreel videos, for the content and for the humor. Thanks for making this, Joshua.
Portfolio reviews need to be longer because 10 minutes feels too short.
Hmmmm....last time they were too long
@@JoshuaFluke1 Just searched my comment history and I didn't find anything that I said the video was too long. At least on this channel. I did say that this video was too long: ua-cam.com/video/sKa8DvVysfI/v-deo.html
HR probably reviews more of these portfolios in even less time
Would you comment more on the projects they have listed? Because if one's most impressive project is a calculator app I don't think the portfolio itself is good, at least from a substance perspective.
@Raul A simple calculator connected to a database might be a bad thing to "show off" though. Sure it demonstrates you know how to do it, but it also demonstrates that you are adding unnecessary bulk to the project, that in turn, slows down the app.
Yeah, Java Calculator was like a first year computer science homework assignment, it's a great exercise but as a portfolio piece its hard to really use it as a conversation starter.
Wow, after seeing these portfolios, the one I'm making right now feels basic. But from the critiques you're giving them, that's probably a good thing, lol
This type of stuff for junior developers is gold! Btw, the way you hang your sunglasses is genius!
Thank you so much for making these videos. I've learned a lot and I know what i gotta do with my portfolio.
Sure thing!
If you can get more portfolios on the regular then this can become a very fun format for a weekly video. Super fun to watch someone with experience pick through projects and bring up advice.
Great video. I can lean very much from this kind of format. Thumbs up!
Hello fellow Vchainer
Really looking forward for more of these type of videos, always interesting to have some insight. It feels that sometimes we are so blind by impressing possible recruiters that we fail to actually impress them.
I had to remove my phone number and email address from my portfolio website because I kept getting spam calls and emails because of it
Ahh
did you share it on reddit or something?
I had that problem too. Bunch of spam calls from India 5 times per day
Dayum! hit us with the most epic loading screen/music combo ever.
this vids helped me a lot to make some important decisions for my own portfolio page as a frontend guy
Just came across your channel and have a question with regards to portfolio projects... Hypothetically speaking, I created a fully functional website for a business, taking payment details, orders etc that's up and running, I'm sure that's something great to show at the interview, however, diclaiming the code for it might not be legal if I'm correct? Therefore no proof I've done it myself. I don't know the rules, but how to present a project that was done for someone else where not all details can be presented? Just curious.
Show them and tell them you'll validate your skills with a code test or something
Simple is good. Copying another portfolio is probably better. Focus on building the content more than anything. Probably not a good idea to waste time on this
Dayum the sock has stayed from the stream yesterday!
I wouldnt bash putting a picture on your portfolio site. The people who are trying to hire are trying to hire a person after all and after going through a stack of portfolios/resumes all with similar titles and backgrounds its hard to remember who are you hiring if you can't even put a face to them. If I were to be hiring for X position at X company for X amount of dollars I wouldnt want it to be a mystery as to who I am hiring. If you are so worried about your appearance disqualifying you then you sure as hell aren't going to pass that in person interview regardless.
I completely agree, exactly my thoughts. I agree with a lot of what this guy says but I find his take on not wanting to see profile pictures a little odd and pretty dismissive.
I get his reasoning that people might form a negative stereotype of you but then 1. Those people aren’t worth working for and 2. Prove them wrong.
Also another strange take, no, you don’t need to have every link to every page right there on the landing. It’s fine to ask someone to navigate around, a little though and try to make it a nice experience.
I dunno, I find his style to be very brute force constructive (this bad, do this) instead of being a useful critique.
I'm glad I watched this while in the early stages of building my portfolio site. There is a lot of good advice in this video. I'm going to apply all of it to my site and hopefully one day you can critique it in front of the entire internet 😂 All jokes aside, I love your channel, man. Thanks for all of your content!
Excellent tips, Joshua. Thanks for taking the time.
I'm impressed by the effort that people are putting into their portfolios, well done all.
On the other hand is the competition over developer jobs really that demanding in the US? After I finished university here in Sweden I applied for a couple of jobs without any portfolio, just the resume, and was offered my first full job within a couple of weeks. All I was asked during the initial interview was if I had any side projects that I've been working on.
I can see the point of portfolios if you are trying to get the a freelance deal to develop a website for a company, but for normal 9-5s is it really necessary in the US?
Your university degree is your portfolio in Sweden. If you can get through that you can learn any job, coding decently for a company takes around 2-3 months to learn.
Also, who cares if you have a portfolio with a Java calculator project? No one - that's who.
Just graduated high school, I have an interest in coding, found your channel a few days ago and been watching daily and I have to say you're one of the most direct, down-to-earth guy I have watched thus far.
I had a really bad interview today. I have been asked “ who is my favorite Java author? What book? What is the recent event you have gone? Do you think other languages work in JVM? What do you really want? What do you think version control? Blablabla”. I did badly. Very disappointed at myself. I did not have some nice answers prepared.
Just answer it straight, like you don’t know and you don’t read books buy you know java blog authors or something like that. I think I had a worse interview the other day. A lady ceo who talked like a lawyer, that everything I said was used against me lol. I was cornered in every answers I gave, like why I am leaving the company quite too soon, and she said it’s a red flag. Etc...
Glenn Posadas yes. That is what I said.
HIT THAT LIKE BUTTON ESPECIALLY FOR YOU JACKSEPTIC... I mean Josh. Great vid as always
Oh, thanks. Heres an iPhone
You probably already have one I didn't discover yet, but if you don't it would be really cool to have a video dedicated to really well done portfolios that you know of. Just to give us some ideas about how it should be done.
And I'm not talking about those that seem to be done by zen masters of the trade, but ones that are actually in reach for somebody who is trying to get serious about it.
Hmmm. Sure
The last part was so reel, haha keep it up dude! Thanks
Back end people never show presentation layer they are good with Business logic. Cz nowadays bootstrap and Angular io give ready-made templates.
I love looking at peoples portfolio websites. Idk how but in middleschool I found someones website with their name as the url and maybe it was a blogspot. But he had an audio visualiser, a rubiks cube i think, some random "magic circle" generator thing? and his own con lang. If anyone has cool portfolios like that you should make money off that stuff alone lol. Like one or two advertisements on the sides.
my fav series on your channel
As a history teacher going for a post bacc in CS I appreciate the Ulysses S. Grant joke lol.
Thank you for doing that It gives me a lot of advice
I love your channel so much, I like videos before I see them! You made a great impression on me, bro!
This is great stuff. Thank you.
I saw my portfolio at 5:30 but you didn't review it. Why didn't you review it? Is there something wrong with it?
People aim to become as advanced as possible and want to show off how advanced their skills are. Being advanced is wonderful because there's much more you can do in problem solving. However people forget that the solution is never how advanced you can make it, it's what simple to advanced skills you can leverage to come up with the simplest solution. Your goal is to always keep things simple, advanced skills are needed to keep a complex problem simple. So many of these portfolios just try to make things so complicated to show off their skill set and it's not well received.
i would just change the GPA to 4.0 too
Nice video Joshua! I'm finishing a bootcamp and this helps me a lot 👍
The first portfolio, all of the projects are from youtube tutorials. lol.
Thanks for all your work man!
A calculator and weight converter? This definitely gave me confidence. Thank you.
Okay, but to be fair I wanted to see the metro card reader
nice tips!
Do more of this! Loved it. You got a new sub
Will do
There’s so many success stories about getting a first software engineering job. Especially here on UA-cam. As I browse thru all of these software engineering videos and internships... I never find the other side to that story.. the ones who get rejected and the ones who struggle to find their first software engineering job. I am in this pool. Maybe you could make a video in the future about the struggles of getting even phone calls when applying to these jobs and the struggle with being judged on a bad past that makes one a “wild card” in the eyes of recruiters. A video for people like me who aren’t having those same opportunities just because we don’t have that number on our resumes that gives them a safe feeling. I’m sure you can guess what number I’m referring too, hint. It’s not the age.
remove anything from your resume/portfolio that could potentially be judged / viewed negatively. don't tell anything about your past, use numbers minimally, keep everything positive and focus on showing them your actual functioning projects and their code. you really have to pretend you're the bomb diggity, even if you're not. if you lack a skill then still put it across in a positive light. i.e. "Well I learned x so I can definitely learn y in no time."
kassie jane thank you so much for the comment. I will make the adjustments 🙌🏻
10:13 - The iPhone giveaway killed me haha 😂 thank you for the video.
😂
Thanks for this! I really need to study more till I can make my own portfolio
Guys, I'm looking on how to put that live view code of the project on my portfolio, but no clue searching for it. I don't even know the keywords to search for it... If anyone could give me a direction on how to look for it, i'll be very thankful!!
I literally started to learn Javascript yesterday, (I am not a programmer) can I put that in my brand new portfolio?
More portfolio videos please!
Sure thing
Hey, are you still doing these? Where do I send you my portfolio for the next such video, if you plan another one?
Just found your channel and it turns out you just released a video. Get in, son
Welcome aboard
3:47 I guess they never miss huh
Thanks for impersonating the likes-beggars. Appreciated.
Free iphone all ya gotta do is he subscribed
This makes me feel good about my self :)
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Good stuff as always!
Would be interested in a guide on where to host portfolios. I'm planning on making one myself.
Thanks for the vids, I am studying to try and get into Fullstack Academy bootcamp. Do you think it is a good strategy or self-taught all the way?
Theo Hyxe it doesn’t matter if you go to boot camp or college or self taught. Everything is self taught. Just get in that mindset that you need to learn by yourself no matter where you go.
@@optimuss_jedi2394 thanks for the input
Bro your website @t is way to slow. It took a minute to load. You have a huge image loading in the background.
p.s I opened it on a 4G network. So u might wanna check on that one.
Its not my hosting.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Well ok then!
I don't understand why the last one is so small. All the important stuff is crammed in the middle while the rest of the site is devoted to the animated background. Imagine looking at it on a 15" laptop screen.
Should i have 1 or 2 big projects like min 5 pages and a lot of functionalites?or 5 one page mini projects?thanks
I love these videos but you never actually say if you think they are job ready or not! That's what I want to know :D
Got a degree? Then yes, you are job ready.
it should be fairly obvious by the state of their website
Help with with my Portfolio Josh Love your videos! :)
The last one is a commercial WordPress theme, RyanCV on Themeforest. A developer using a commercial theme for his own CV is a bit of a red flag.
Question: im trans but I just started hormones so I still look very masculine. should I use my name or deadname on my CV (if I get a job and they're expecting "naira" and they see a 6ft 90kg "guy" show up they may be a tad confused) any advice appriciated
Somehow I feel the last portfolio could be a great visual example of WHY you would use React and not just "because React is faster blablabla".
Good video and like the rest of the comment section I also enjoy the humor u've begun to add 😂
Might sound stupid, but on a portfolio site, what would you recommend if I don't have a resume to show?
Background video used to cost a lot of bandwidth before we got access to proper encoding through webm.
With a properly encoded webm it's less bandwidth than a gif.
I can't find a nice design to make my portfolio and projects, always struggle on that. Any tips? Thanks!
Templated.co
nice nice, didnt see it yet but nice
Can you post the links to the websites please?
Im not sure if theyd want me to
4:13 what if it's a tiny 300-714kb gif - compressed. Videos usually don't auto load on mobile. Maybe webm or webp?
Ulises did not listen regarding the top portion and text at all.
Would you consider making a video on how to UA-cam? From a content creator perspective. You seem to be quite good at it :D
Im not even a programmer or into IT, I just find your content fun to watch.
What do you want to see?
Joshua Fluke what got you started, how you started, how you come up with ideas, editing, advertising your channel, growing your following, equipment, etc.
I'm specifically learning React.js so I can build a portfolio lol
The way you critique their work sounds a little cooky.
Cool video !
I have finished my new website which is about books. If i send you to evaluate my website, could you do that for me? Site s bad sides and good sides.
0:30 Imagine applying for a ui/ux position
recruiter needs to click 5 times to get to your portfolio :D :D
You speak fast. I like it.
World love to see you make one page react video
....Maaaaybe
I'm new. What caused the 4k monitor not to be supported? Was it something he did or didn't do?
It wasnt added
How do I make a portfolio for network security engineer?
Mantie please capatalise the names of tech you're using. Python instead of python and Java instead of java. Makes it look 👌
Oh, Fong.
I remember doing my own portfolio coz i gone to a web development bootcamp with php 2 years ago, it was shite honestly, but hey i got a software engineer job, doing mostly desktop applications now
How'd you go from web development to desktop development with a portfolio made for web development? That just doesn't make sense when they are two separate fields of study.
@@brandongonzales9687 yes that doesn't made sense to me either.. to make a long story short, i was having a hard time finding a job coz i shifted career hence the web development bootcamp, after countless failed interview i landed my job at a pretty much famous IT company, you would think they're the Google in my country, turns out they were looking for someone who knows just how to code, they provided trainings for a month for the tech stack needed in my job... so yeah, that's just how it is, some companies doesn't give shite about what you know, they just wanna know if you know how to code and make you learn the tech stack needed for their clients
hmm in germany we never put photos on put resumes.
They are however a couple pros about it.
Imagine you are Mr. Manager of a local beauty shop, All stores full with beautiful talented women.
now you need some new people to work for you, and you get hundreds of Applications for the job.
You invite someone without a picture to a meeting, and she looks like Peter from family when he had no bones.
You just wasted all that energy + Ressourcs + time just because you didnt see her before.
you can argue now that people shouldnt shame someone on look and thats totally true, but everyone does especially when your apperance matters.
No one wants a Bald tattoed guy with muscle shirts as theire Bankemployee.
If you dont have customer contact, idc what you look lile and no one else.should but when you got frequent customer contact a decent apperance is Key.
WOW, I GUY WITH BACK END knowledge especially with the skill like JAVA and SPRING boots.. etc; Is showing technique. such a shame he can host a fully secure and responsive website on EC2. plus he can show transaction, form, register and login, etc, etc.
yoo im gonna send mine in its quite empty but its more design focused is that cool?
Sure
I got projects but they're not for real companies, can I put them on my portfolio?
Absolutely