12-03-2009, 02:36 AM
M A V I C wrote:
[quote=bazookaman]
hmmm. No one has ever asked me to present my portfolio BEFORE the interview.
Wow. It's been years since my last interview, but back then I used to have a two page resume. Page 1 was the standard stuff, Page 2 was a full list of URLs to review. Most job posts requested this.
I'm really blown away that many wouldn't want a perspective employer to see live sites as they could have problems. If they could have been edited, I can see that. But as far as browser issues... those should be solved already.
not that they could have problems - more that the client computer could have problems. What if their monitor was waaay out of calibration? What if something that was supposed to be neutral gray was green? You can't account for this and when you are presenting your own work you wan to present it correctly.
I was in a new biz pitch once showing off a simple site i had done. The css font stack was Georgia, TNR, Serif. The client computer had neither georgia nor TNR. The site came up with some gawdawful serif. So now despite the fact that i had spec'ed my font stack as well as could be expected, the fact that this computer was in the maybe two percent of machines that have neither georgia nor TNR, reflected poorly on my work.
And that's why it will never happen again.