JR Developer Portfolio Reviews | This Portfolio Landed A Job In Software Development

so last week we did some portfolio reviews from developers i've read it and a lot of people seem to like them and they keep coming in so i'm going to keep doing these every week i couldn't exactly get to everyone last week because the video got pretty long it was like half an hour long and i i don't want to be like skimming over people's portfolios i actually want to take the time to go through them so there's a few more people from last week and this week that we're gonna do i have three developers that we're gonna be looking over today and we're gonna get into those in just a minute the cool thing about this week is one of the guys who sent his his portfolio and actually managed to land a junior developer job already so i think you'll be able to see by the end of the video kind of what things he did right and what makes him stand out from all the other people have sent in their stuff and like why he was able to use his portfolio to land a junior developer job full disclaimer on this video just like last week i'm not in charge of like hiring people i don't work in hr or anything like that i just have been able to i guess land some internships and some jobs like using my portfolio alone like not using like my degree or anything like i didn't finish my degree or any other work experience like the portfolio is a really good tool to land jobs and i'd be able to do that so like this is just like kind of my opinion i've been working as a web developer for for five years now and i kind of know how to like use these things to be able to like give people what they want to see to be able to break into the field but i'm in no way like a hiring manager or anything like that and the other big disclaimer is like i'm not trying to be mean while i'm doing these like trying to rip you guys apart like thanks everyone who sent them in so far i'm honestly surprised so many people have but i just kind of getting a flow when i'm like going over these and i'm like oh yeah he could do this and there's this thing you could change oh i know hr managers like they really look for this thing and i just want to like give you guys like as much as i can you just sit here and watch like a half an hour video me reviewing these things i'm hoping you can like step away and actually be able to take some of this stuff and go out and like make the changes to your portfolio and like take these things and apply them i'm also thinking about doing resume reviews too um i have like my resume that i would kind of base it off a couple years ago i did a resume like interview with a google engineer you kind of broke it down like exactly what they look for and how you should structure it and i used that resume to land my first internship and get like a bunch of callbacks from like a bunch of places i was applying at the time and i really changed it too much i kind of use that as like the template for like how they do them so i'm thinking about doing yeah resume reviews too so the email will be in the description if you guys want to send in your resume or portfolio just send them in there whenever i get like three or four of these i'll probably just like do the video that week on like portfolio or like resume just depending on how many people how many people get in but yeah okay without further ado uh let's dive into the portfolio reviews okay first up we got andrea okay uh you guys might know from the last video i did how i feel about pictures on your portfolio i just think it doesn't do any favors like what if you're playing like a senior role or something and they see like they think you're too young also like you say we're off the bat december 2018 my first hackathon you might have been coding for a long time before that but they say oh 2018 his first hackathon he just started coding he doesn't have five years of experience only got two years of experience so i'll probably just take that out center your name here and just just leave it at that okay let's see what else you got scroll down to your work it'd be nice if this was a scroll too just a little thing not a huge deal um one thing i noticed is that if you're up here it snaps to your work and then when you click on about and click on contact nothing happens because they're in the same viewport here so it's just a little weird like ux thing it makes it a little confusing i click on contact nothing happens nothing changes i would just maybe make these sections a little bit bigger add some more padding here so if i'm on work and this takes up my entire viewport click on about it'll scroll down to about same as when i click on contact it'll scroll down to either the footer or some sort of like form or bigger section you put down here just clean that up a little bit and then you have your resume that works i'm not going to pull that up on the screen so i want to show everyone and let's take a look at your about section a couple things here i wouldn't say you prefer working with javascript i would just like list the technologies you know like type strip angular whatever and just leave it at that because i think one of the biggest things you can do is be i guess language agnostic so if you know if you've been coding long enough doesn't really matter like what you're using like you know javascript or python or if you're using django or node like if you know how to code and you know these design patterns and how most of these frameworks work you can pick one up and just like hit they hit the ground running and if you apply for a job where you know what if they are like a total like python django shop and all you're saying is you know like javascript i would just try and portray the message that you're a software developer you know how to code you know how to work with technology and it doesn't really matter what that technology is that you can just you'll be able to pick it up and learn and i know that's that people do look for like you don't know a specific technology when you're applying for a job but like i mean the last place that i worked at there was a guy who had been coding java for like his past like 10 years and that's pretty much all he knew but he got a job in a shop that used only ruby on rails and he learned it in a few months he was off to the races and now he's like a senior engineer i think he's like one of the ctos there something like that i would take that out personally okay you have your stack overflow linked i don't know how people are really going to take a look here i've heard some people do it looks like you do actually post quite a bit and you've written some articles on here that's good okay you can see that right off the bat i have no idea what a good score on stack overflow is i really just use it for googling things at work i don't know how to do something but 265 is better than zero okay uh yeah i would leave this here this is it just shows you're active in the community what i'm really interested in is your project so i'm gonna hop in there okay it looks like you contribute to a lot of open source so that's that's really good actually so you have the projects uh github repository as well as your contribution so i can immediately see what you've contributed to it that's really good take a peek at some of these because they're not going to spend that much time in here they might take a look just like a high level idea what you're doing okay you're working with graphql writing tests that looks really good that's awesome okay so this is definitely something good to have just for someone to have the understanding that like you know how to work in a test driven development environment you know how to write tests and test your code and contributing to something open source so it's not just your own project that's great that's really awesome to have you don't see this on a lot of people's portfolio it's just project that they've worked on so it's really good i love that you have the front end and the back end of the same open source project that you've worked on so that you can work across all parts of the stack again the repository and the contributions i'm not sure exactly what this project is or if it's a bigger project okay so actually found the project that you're contributing to and this looks really cool so look there's actually a pretty big project a lot of people working on it so the fact that you're contributing to this looks looks really good man it's really i think arguably better than having um your own your own projects on here unless it was obviously something that actually had users and you were like making money off or was living out there in the wild i got another contribution here to javascript tips let's see what and tidbits okay so contributing to the community again okay so your whole portfolio just screams like i love to code so that's that's really good you can definitely tell you spend a lot of time like giving back to open source and just learning um i see you have this invoice application here i would have liked scenes like a live demo here instead of just the github repository when you say here like uh national competition that actually let me land second place i don't know if that's true or not i'm not saying it's not but there's no way to tell this is another really good one man like this okay so actually providing like a really solid readme like you have uml diagrams screenshots of the application um all the features listed out a whole like getting started this is great so like no one's probably actually going to download and run this like i highly highly doubt unless you're like a very small startup that's looking at you and even then probably not just the fact you went through and like have a very detailed readme this is this looks awesome man and just having like uml diagrams like showing that you actually know how to like structure software architecture maybe you have like a bit of a computer science or software engineering background um that that's awesome this is the way to do it if you don't have a like live preview to show to somebody and even if you do have a live preview to show to someone this one it just it's that it's that extra edge like not just you know how to like code something up and and throw it at the wall and get it online but you actually there's some thought going into planning this thing so if if you have a project that you're proud of and actually like you know does more than like a to-do app like this is what you should be doing so this is actually a really good example of a portfolio where you don't have like a lot of projects like online or like live but you're doing a really good job of showcasing your skills like you have very detailed readme you're contributing to open source uh this is another this is a different approach than i took but i think it's just as effective if not more looks like you also have a blog here it was actually took me a little while to find this um just because it's not in the nav bar and that's how i was going off of i'll probably chuck this up here to make it more apparent um anyways let's go take a peek oh this is cool you have a tagging system here that's really good okay and you write about code a lot it looks like some of these are outbound links so you've actually like contributed to other blogs that's awesome like you you can tell you're very engaged in the community and um you spend a lot of time programming i've said that a million times but it's really good and then you also have your own blog set up here too uh wow this looks really nice um so i'm not sure exactly what you're using for this like if you're using markdown or let's take a peek where you're using behind the scenes here gatsby nice okay uh so yeah i imagine you're using like markdown or you've styled these yourself that's what i usually do too this is this is really impressive so this is one example of like everyone has a like a blog on their on their site and usually just like some plain text or something but if you actually go like a little extra mile and like you come up with these like interactive components and like different way to like style your markdown like he has a few things here like not on this post but on okay this one right here i looked for so long to find this because i saw it earlier when i was looking at portfolio but just little things like this like actually being able to interact with the content it shows that you actually know what you're doing you're not just like rendering like some like a little bit of like plain text or using like wordpress or something and it's also very technical like so if you're using this portfolio just to land a job you want to be showing them that you just you know you know what you're doing you're not just talking about you're not trying to get traffic talking about anything like your blog you're talking about technical aspects this is the way to go man i feel like all i've done is like tell you how good a job you're doing really give you feedback i don't know how much this is helping you but this uh portfolio is great there wasn't there isn't too much that i would change like content-wise and like with what you're actually like putting on here in terms of projects the one thing i would like to see is maybe one like actually live hosted like full stack app or you can actually like click the url go to it and interact with it if you have time to like put together another side project that's kind of the next thing you want to do the only other thing is just someone like the ui ux stuff so like when you come on here like not having your like blog like very apparent from anywhere and just this whole like navigation situation where like nothing changes and maybe just like throwing in like a scroll to or something so it's like not so just like snappy little things like that but other than that um i i think it's great and i think you just keep keep doing what you're doing maybe just clean it up a little bit when you have some time think about putting a full stack application on here and getting like somebody able to actually interact with it in the browser and go visit it but other than that i think this is a really good example of what people should be striving for in terms of their project contribute open source and um having like actually having this sort of technical stuff in their blog and like going the extra mile to have it a little more to have it a little more built out than just like rendering like plain text or something like that so yeah um good job andrea i'm sure you are going to be absolutely fine trying to find a job with this portfolio absolutely fine next up we got tony batts that beard is like next level like that's what i'm trying to get to okay let's take a peek here navigation looks good navbar sticks that top i like that just take a look a nice little scroll too going on here that looks awesome okay now let's actually see what you got content was uh always improving fuel by coffee a little obsessive a little awkward okay personality comes across really well on this thing you got like a really cool vibe and aesthetic going also like i didn't really say anything about this uh hero here but this all looks really good you can tell you know what you're doing on the front end i'm just interested to see what you built this in and i i don't think i'd be going too far so you built this from scratch it looks like you built this thing from scratch i could be wrong what if he did good for you not a lot of people do that anymore okay i would probably not put in something like this as if something is broken try deleting your cache uh there's an older version in your browser where it tends to break things this just doesn't stream confidence in your ability as a developer uh i know it's not like a huge thing it's just your personal site i'll probably just you know take that out um my last little i would definitely leave this stuff in i think it makes your like personality come across a lot more but i would probably clean up the grammar on some of this just a little bit and clean it up make it look more professional like actually formatting this kind of stuff correctly like this in here just little things but i would clean that up the slightest bit okay skills html css javascript bootstrap get wordpress photoshop apple indesign php excel stack workflow excel okay i would probably take this out because you're applying for a job as a software developer also like what is apple as a skill like do you mean like os x like as your operating system or i don't know what that is i would take this and excel out i can see that you're definitely trying to market yourself as having some design chops too um and you can tell from your site like it looks pretty good so that's fine just keep that in there stack overflow i don't know if this smells like a joke but i thought that was pretty funny so i i think most recruiters would too that's i believe that too that's pretty funny and let's take a peek what we're always most interested in is your projects winter advertising agency okay one like nitpicky thing i would increase the spacing in between your text here because this is so like hard to read it's like a wall of text so like try like bullet listing this or at least like increasing this like line spacing or something cause it's like really hard to read through it looks like you have links to your live sites though i'm not sure what this youtube video is my first oh my god you're making youtube videos displaying your projects wow that's different okay that's cool i like it i think video is the easiest way to communicate with people so i think you're onto something there and you also have live site links which is awesome okay let's take a look at one of these things this is your first one people are gonna think it's the newest it's the first one they're gonna look at so this is what i'm gonna be judging most of it on if this one is actually your best one then i mean you probably just put less projects on here so they see uh your most impressive work what you want them to see not your whole like everything you've made throughout your whole career i got to put my first project on my portfolio because it was hey this looks really good man i really like the aesthetic of this thing you clearly know you're doing uh design-wise you're interested to see what you built this in uh we got a wordpress site i don't know if you're applying for like a wordpress job or if you built this theme from the first one okay so it doesn't look like you actually built this theme it looks like you just put together a wordpress site that's kind of what i get from here anyway so i probably wouldn't have that on your i could see my recommended here i don't know i probably wouldn't have that on your portfolio unless it's something you built from scratch like slapping together a wordpress theme isn't really what you want to put on your on your resume if you're applying for a dev job so i would probably try to find something else there uh this one looks like you built from scratch we're gonna take a look at this okay so you can really tell the difference between the site that you built from scratch on the wordpress site like they're just night and day like that last site and this one i would take this wordpress site off and this one um if you're like you say in your portfolio that you have all these like design skills and like all these technologies used this doesn't really say that to me this looks really dated um you do have some stuff going on here like you have a cart that you can go and work with um i'm just gonna see how well this thing actually [Music] works [Music] go through a workflow here sure no add-ons okay okay so you do have like a full shopping cart workflow here so i take it back i would keep this on your portfolio um i just i kind of expected it to look a little more modern with all the stuff you have on your portfolio design-wise you fooled me this isn't built from scratch it's a wordpress site too okay so i'm not sure if you're using a theme or if you just like kind of built the wordpress like theme yourself if you built this wordpress theme yourself this is really impressive you have a shopping cart in here and just that functionality alone is like good to show off but i would make it very clear in here um what exactly you did when you say i built the site from scratch how to optimize yada yada yada is that that you bought a wordpress theme and threw it together from scratch or like you built this wordpress theme from scratch and you're looking to find a job as like a php developer like pumping out wordpress themes so i make it very clear in here what exactly you're doing what exactly like what kind of code you wrote to like make this project happen or if you're just like plunking wordpress scenes together because my first vibe when i see this portfolio like so far is you're just a wordpress guy like you know how to like download a theme and like throw stuff together i don't know how much coding you're actually doing i'm just going to quickly pop through some of your other projects i don't have time to look through all of them super thoroughly i'm gonna guess this is another wordpress site looks like a personal project yeah wordpress there it is so there are a few good things here like looks like you designed it it looks like it's won some sort of awards i'm i don't really know how to verify that i don't think anyone else is going to be able to either it got a lot of traffic like yeah these are all nice things i don't know if that's true or not they're not going to be able to know either let's take a look at your last two projects here okay so i think the my biggest issue with this portfolio so far is it looks like you're just like a guy like throwing together wordpress sites so i think if you were like pitching this to clients it'd be like an okay thing you see like oh there's seo and there's lots of traffic here and we're putting together like shopping carts people buy your products like i'm a client i'm here like oh these are all like good things i'll probably need for my small business but if i'm an engineer looking to hire you it's like what did you do did you build this theme out are you like what framework you're using what languages are you using like what features did you actually give them at yourself and what just came like baked into the wordpress like back end with the plugins that you're using so i'll make that very clear in here because i i honestly don't know i don't really know how to judge your skill set based on your portfolio and that's the whole job of the portfolio so i know exactly like what you can do and what they can what they'll pay you to do so you got an instagram feed baked in here or something i'm guessing i'm sure it's okay this is fine um i don't it's not like super relevant but i mean if you wanna i i don't think it's like that necessary especially if you're like looking to like have an employer or like a hr person looking at this i mean it's okay i'm not gonna tell you to get rid of it and then contact pay this is good i like having a dedicated contact form just makes it nice and easy to be able to get a hold of you uh scroll to top one thing that i will definitely um i love with this guy's site he has like these little easter eggs hidden everywhere like if you go down here and like click on this guy like a naruto like booking across the screen there's also i think there's like a pokemon that comes out here somewhere ah there we go eight bomb appeared that's funny though little things like that like they seem kind of dumb but at some point there's gonna be another like another techie like looking at this like it might be an hr person first but eventually they're gonna give it to uh whoever's gonna be like interviewing you or one of the more senior guys and they're gonna quickly look through your portfolio and like little stuff like this can be enough for them to like kind of connect with you and be like oh like this is like someone i get along with something i think it's funny i'll bring him in and talk to him forms free classic okay i would have liked to see like something else going on there just because i didn't really see like much like other like programming chops being flexed here like it's all just like kind of like built-in stuff like wordpress but farmstreet's fine forms nice and easy okay so i really like the look your site um the easter eggs is like really cool the navigation is all good but you're definitely going to need some bigger projects in here so like this is all just like wordpress stuff i need to see you either making it clear exactly what you did with these projects um like if you actually built the themes from scratch if you integrated certain features from scratch like yourself or some sort of other project that doesn't involve wordpress you know php and like javascript like there's no reason why you can like build some sort of like full stack application yourself and like try and get it hosted i would like to see something that incorporates some more of these skills uh in your projects like and i would you already have like a bunch of stuff in here looks like you've actually been paid to do like the job you have now which mostly does wordpress so just like take the time to build like one personal project like a few months and then try and get something really impressive and put it like boom like front and center here and then maybe try and narrow down these projects as well right now you have like four or five six of these things they're only gonna look at like maybe like two or three of them like i went through and looked at all of them because i got time i guess but i most people are only gonna look at like one or two if they're looking at your portfolio so i would leave that front and center and then whatever maybe whatever wordpress site you think is most impressive that you actually did the most coding for uh make it really clear what you did leave it up there and put a new project on there and then i i think you're gonna be in good shape like your portfolio is nice but it's hard for you to judge so i honestly don't know like where your skill set is like what you can actually do like based on my portfolio so definitely make that message a lot clearer and then if you do have these skills here that you claim to have i think you're going to be in good shape so thanks for sending that in tony it looks really good okay next up we have ben and ben is a web developer focusing on javascript python and java development big data and general software engineering practices 11-year veteran of the us army well that is really cool 11-year veteran turn software developer that's awesome man skills html javascript css react.js sas gatsby jas when people use gatsby gatsby is awesome figma adobe inkscape and blender wow so you're really front end focused here a lot of design stuff going on okay back in development too okay node.js express python flash graphql mysql postgresql java get well java is more of like a backend language if i put that up there um git linux apache nginx holy this just keeps going data analysis pandas jupiter matlab are you an eleven year vet in the military or losing your vet in software engineering because i don't know how you would know all these technologies well enough to put on your portfolio if you have been coding for a long long time i've been coding for five years and i code every day i love it and like sure i know like and all this stuff like i probably put on here like i know all this stuff very well do not know any of this i would not put that on there but like no yeah i'd put that on there express but some of this stuff like i've used a little bit but i would not feel comfortable putting on my portfolio like nginx i messed around with it and used it for my own personal projects but i would not put this as being able to use it in a professional setting same with aws like i'm not a devops guy i don't know if you are but i would just be careful there because you're listing a lot of technology here anything you put on here is fair game like an interview like if they bring you on it like and they see this here they're gonna think you are like you are comfortable using a professional setting so i don't know how much experience you have maybe you've been coding for like 10 years i don't know why you're sending your portfolio to me if you are but i'd be careful about listing all this because it's different and like i open this up like one or two times it's like a hobby like like a little like side project but it's different if you're actually saying like i'm comfortable enough to use this in a professional setting okay sorry rant over uh let's take a look at your contact blog projects art so um art's got me very intrigued so i'm gonna look here first instead of the projects okay so i don't really know what you're applying like what kind of um what kind of recruiter you're trying to attract here are you looking for like a full stack job a front end a back-end job or are you looking to be like a ui ux designer or something because i don't really know how this is all like relevant um if you're applying for a job but i mean i guess like it shows your personality a little bit sure wow you could really work on the ui ux for this page i don't know exactly what's going on here these ones that don't even look like you can actually click on okay don't really know what's going on with this page i would probably just take this out i don't really know how it's relevant okay let's go to your blog i'm gonna react interaction design uh okay so you got a few things going on here just kind of documenting what you're learning oh and it's all stuff that you've actually like contributed to dev that's cool a little trick if you want to keep people on your site uh change the target to i believe it's target underscore blank and then it'll open up this link in a new tab not the current tab i really know what these hearts are it looks like you've like tried to incorporate like liking or something into your blog but i can't figure out actually how to do it oh it's just pulling from the dev looks like one of the dev api if i go back here and inspect this you know your network tab reload this not exactly sure where these are coming from if you are pulling them in from an api that'd be cool to list that okay let's get to the important part your projects healthy living business say guess bjs drupal cms youtube api authors you got a lot of stuff going on there dungeons and dragons graphql api that's cool python scripts great sqlite database mongodb instance graphql schema a whole jam stack going here react nutlify function yeah that's really good a lot of people looking for that right now i would probably move this like a little further up actually actually let me let me take that back let me look at this first healthy living business website okay so uh before even like trying to understand what's going on here technically you have on your portfolio like all these different like design technologies and you say that you're like ui ux designer this site looks really dated like it looks like something from the like 90s if you're gonna put this like the number one thing on your portfolio and you're saying that you're you have ui ux chops um i would i would clean this up but let's actually look like what's going on here technically so they have a blog um and i'm guessing it says he built this with gatsby so it's not like this is just like wordpress you're actually coding this so that's good video not a lot of content though so it'd be cool to see like some infinite uh infinite scroll or like pagination or something this just links off to some other website that is again with the target blank for the new window be nice to have that there and this just looks like some sort of like zoom plug-in like like you just like kind of like an i-frame like you popped in here i'm guessing yeah let's do my frame so nothing like super impressive here um i don't know if i would have that as my first project you didn't plan autho that's good but it's like hidden like way up here no one's actually gonna like go through this workflow so i think about um yeah either presenting this a little different or moving it further down your project project page projects you just have the code for this guy okay so you have to i would include a little more information in your readme so like in one of the um i think the first portfolio reviewed today you get a really really um well thought out read me and try include something like that because all this tells me is like this is a this is a work in progress api and like i'm not going to go through all these steps to like actually do this and see what you've got going on it's really like very like on first glance i would if you're not going to have a live link um and i'm not actually able to interact with it um i would include a very well thought out readme brew numbers api here's my data conversion with their brewing projects what the heck is this it's not secure it doesn't have a domain name it's literally just living on the ip address it not looking great okay what does this thing do okay so my biggest thing with this one is what did you build this with like what did you actually do um i would list that like right here because i can dive into the code and go find out myself but like on first glance like i don't really know so it looks like wait dummies and dragons what the hell [Music] okay so that one isn't even linked you have the wrong one yeah okay so that's the wrong link that's broken so i have no idea what this project what what you used to build this project what you actually did and i can't access the code and the live site is a little rough so i'm not too sure how i feel about having this one here let's move on to this uh jam stack sykes i'm really pumped to see this one i'm just gonna go back and open this in a new tab so i don't want to get lost this is again dated so if you're going to have all these things here figma photoshop inscape if you're going to have all these things um unlisted here i would definitely think about you know presenting these a little better because again these look like they're out of like the 90s it's not the best ui um there is some like functionality built in here like being able to add like things to a shopping cart that's that's great that's like a very common workflow to have um well it's not even a shopping cart actually it's just like it sends in like an email form yeah i think you're going the right direction with this one but i would make clean this up a lot think about um incorporating like the shopify api or like cart js or something i think it's car just what is it snip card that's it okay so yeah i think about using like snip card or shopify and incorporating that so i can like i can already tell like i've worked with like jam stack sites a lot you're probably just like sending off like a form saying like oh cinnamon bun brownie cupcakes someone would actually have to go into their email and like like decipher that and like make the order themselves wouldn't be like totally automated like a shopify or a snip card thing so think about doing this is going in the right direction um i would think about using some sort of like third-party library to get this photo shopping grid situation figured out and then yeah just cleaning this up making it look more modern like there's no reason why you can't take the time just make this look like a modern you know like 20 20 like website but i think your uh technology stack for this one is like going in in the right direction especially if you're looking for a front end role security consultants pamphlet page for local business using gatsby okay live site oh wait again do this again it just looks really dated man so i would i would just take the time to like work on your css skills a little bit more um it looks like you're using sass as well and just try and even if you don't like come up with the design yourself like just find like a cool template or something that looks modern there's like copy like bits and pieces of other people's site and then just like you know code it up yourself and make it like presented a little more nicely um i think would do you all kinds of favors because like your technology stack i think is on point like you're you're checking all the boxes but it's just uh fine-tuning some of these projects and really presenting them in the best way possible like showcase your skills the best way you can jerome says api express api to pokemon as a friend oh this is live that's cool i'm going to guess this is on heroku i think it's spinning up so i'm going to open this in a new tab and come back to it because i'm running out of time png to mp3 designed to convert a directory of images to mp3 files by a test driver sharing google text speech api wow that sounds really impressive okay let's take a look okay this is a cool little project it would be cool to see this in action though to see it like hosted somewhere and you actually be able to like you know drag and drop a file in and spit out you'll be able to download because yeah the one thing about having just uh your github linked is no one's actually really gonna like look through the code or spend too much time doing it it has to be very high level like people are gonna spend like you know a minute on this page at most so it'd be cool to see this like hosted somewhere or just um a little more like effort put into the readme of just like how exactly you went about doing it but it's it's a nice little project i don't think there's anything wrong with that one uh it looks like you're your jerome says api isn't isn't spinning up so you might want to take that one off there figure out what's going on there that's the other thing about having too many projects in your portfolio page if there's like bugs or like you're not maintaining all of them then you can run into trouble build any broken links that's why i always say like keep it to a few projects a few really good ones doesn't have to be a million of them see a lot of downloads sun moon data united states naval observatory page okay same thing as the other one it's just no one's really gonna go like looting through this code so if you had this hosted or something that would be nice and lastly i haven't looked at your contact page yet let's talk okay so nothing nothing crazy okay ben uh i would say you're on the right track but i think you're going to it looks you're going too broad your skill sets are like all over the place here all of these front-end technologies which is like one of these is someone's job on its own and then like your design stuff here like you're showcasing your art up here uh you have all of these back-end technologies that are like all over the place and then as well as yeah database general unless you have like 10 years of experience or 20 years of like experience i'm not going to believe that you're good you're you can do all these professionally like i just don't buy it so i would try and narrow this down and pick a couple of these technologies and then list them on my portfolio like i build full stack applications and i market myself as a full stack developer and i've used nginx just to get like my server up and get some like very like basic configurations set up but i don't put nginx on my resume like i am not a devops guy like i cannot professionalize in nginx like i can professionalize and like writing back in code and node.js express but i would put like aws on my resume just because i don't do it professionally so i just figure out exactly like what technologies you want to learn like what you need to land like the job in whatever city you're in and then really like hone down on those and then showcase it in your in your portfolio so if you go over to your projects and you have like two four six like eight projects here like again just like narrow this down to like two to four and make it your best work so like you're on the right track with all of these but i wish you hadn't just done one and had like a modern like amazing looking ui it looked like something that was like like top line like that could be passed for like this year and then like you had like a full workflow like working with like the shopify api like checking out stuff and then you had it like you know using the jam stack you have like the whole like mail gun integration like sending off like subscribing for like a blog or something like that and then like really seeing like how you would like get that workflow down for a client instead of just all these like little like bits and pieces like all of these have pieces that i like but throwing them all together i think is what's gonna like is really gonna stand out for you if you're trying to get an employer to look at this and then just listing the technologies used for each one of these would be nice i like i have no idea like what exactly used like your brew api or like a couple of these like you're on the right track with this one here with the uh jam stack stuff but i think you're going like in the right direction i can tell you like code a lot you like to code which is always like the first step the first thing you want to show but i think narrowing down your skill set and being more selective about the projects you pick and then showcasing them in the right light and then i think you will be you will be on your way you'll be and you'll be in really good you'll be in really good shape so uh thanks for sending that one in ben and good luck okay so you guys might be able to tell while i was doing the reviews just by like my reaction to it but the first guy who sent his portfolio review in he was able to use that to actually land a junior developer job and he's actually working as a software engineer right now i think the biggest takeaway from that just kind of look at some of the things that he did right like he contributed a lot of open source so that was a big one he had the front end and back-end projects on his on his work page so you could kind of see that you can like bounce around the stack if you're going for a startup they want to wear like as many hats as possible so that's a good one to look for he also kind of went above and beyond for a few of the aspects on his actual like portfolio site like his blog was a little more built out than most of the blogs you kind of see like he had like tagging and there was like a lot of technical stuff going on in there and like there were some cool things he was doing looked like with like uh like mdx files or something like that he had like some cool features built into like his blog pages wasn't just like spitting out like static like uh plain text or something but my biggest feedback to everyone who sent them in and honestly everyone who sent them in so far is just that to have that like one or two uh like portfolio projects that really stand out and kind of show off like all of the skills that you're that you're trying to communicate so instead of having like six or like eight projects even though like they each do like one little thing and some of them like when you first started coding maybe not you're not the most proud of take like one two like maybe three and just have those listed there and don't show them anything else they don't need to see anything else i don't have time to look at anything else you just want to communicate with them that you can do the work they're paying you to do and you just if you can do that in like one or two projects then beautiful you don't need to do anything else but yeah thanks everyone for sending them in uh if i get more portfolios or resumes to review i will put out another video next week and uh yeah thanks for watching bye you

Channel: Darian Sampare

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Length: 37min 24sec (2244 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2020