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.

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!

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.

just found gordan ramsey of web development

Could you create a portfolio video of one's you think are job ready? Keep up the grind, much love!

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!

Beyond getting the conversation, so much is personality.

Not gonna lie, your portfolio reviews are really helping me improve my own portfolio. A lot of helpful tips in these 👌🏿

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.

Man, please do more of those.

Dayum! hit us with the most epic loading screen/music combo ever.

Excellent tips, Joshua. Thanks for taking the time.

I'm loving these grindreel videos, for the content and for the humor. Thanks for making this, Joshua.

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.

Great video. I can lean very much from this kind of format. Thumbs up!

The last part was so reel, haha keep it up dude! Thanks

Thank you Joshua for reviewing my portfolio! I really appreciate it! Thank you so much! :)

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.

this vids helped me a lot to make some important decisions for my own portfolio page as a frontend guy

Thank you so much for making these videos. I've learned a lot and I know what i gotta do with my portfolio.

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.

Dayum the sock has stayed from the stream yesterday!

This is great stuff. Thank you.

my fav series on your channel

nice tips!

Thanks for all your work man!

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.

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

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!

Thank you for doing that It gives me a lot of advice

This type of stuff for junior developers is gold! Btw, the way you hang your sunglasses is genius!

Do more of this! Loved it. You got a new sub

Good stuff as always!

More portfolio videos please!

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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.

I love your channel so much, I like videos before I see them! You made a great impression on me, bro!

Thanks for this! I really need to study more till I can make my own portfolio

This makes me feel good about my self :)

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.

Would be interested in a guide on where to host portfolios. I'm planning on making one myself.

Nice video Joshua! I'm finishing a bootcamp and this helps me a lot 👍

nice nice, didnt see it yet but nice

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.

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.

Back end people never show presentation layer they are good with Business logic. Cz nowadays bootstrap and Angular io give ready-made templates.

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.

Help with with my Portfolio Josh Love your videos! :)

HIT THAT LIKE BUTTON ESPECIALLY FOR YOU JACKSEPTIC... I mean Josh. Great vid as always

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.

Just found your channel and it turns out you just released a video. Get in, son

World love to see you make one page react video

Portfolio reviews need to be longer because 10 minutes feels too short.

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.

10:13 - The iPhone giveaway killed me haha 😂 thank you for the video.

0:30 Imagine applying for a ui/ux position recruiter needs to click 5 times to get to your portfolio :D :D

Oh, Fong.

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

You speak fast. I like it.

Hey, are you still doing these? Where do I send you my portfolio for the next such video, if you plan another one?

There’s so many success stories about getting a first software engineering job. Especially here on KZfaq. 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.

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 😂

As a history teacher going for a post bacc in CS I appreciate the Ulysses S. Grant joke lol.

I literally started to learn Javascript yesterday, (I am not a programmer) can I put that in my brand new portfolio?

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

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?

4:13 what if it's a tiny 300-714kb gif - compressed. Videos usually don't auto load on mobile. Maybe webm or webp?

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?

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

"High fives all around."

I'm specifically learning React.js so I can build a portfolio lol

is linked in a must have?

Might sound stupid, but on a portfolio site, what would you recommend if I don't have a resume to show?

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.

God damm I liked the video for the iPhone 😂😂

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.

Can you post the links to the websites please?

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.

I can't find a nice design to make my portfolio and projects, always struggle on that. Any tips? Thanks!

Ah, the classic sock.

Josh, do you offer one on one tutor/mentorship ?

you forgot to mention which of those were job ready and which of those would you consider of hiring if you were the hr or the manager looking at them.. let us know thanks

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

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.

Mantie please capatalise the names of tech you're using. Python instead of python and Java instead of java. Makes it look 👌

is that a sock over the mic??

Would you consider making a video on how to KZfaq? From a content creator perspective. You seem to be quite good at it :D

yoo im gonna send mine in its quite empty but its more design focused is that cool?

Comment about mic sock

i would just change the GPA to 4.0 too

How do I make a portfolio for network security engineer?

The first portfolio, all of the projects are from youtube tutorials. lol.

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

I'm new. What caused the 4k monitor not to be supported? Was it something he did or didn't do?

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.

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?

Hey Joshua, is rating your skills on a bar good or bad?

The way you critique their work sounds a little cooky. Cool video !

I got projects but they're not for real companies, can I put them on my portfolio?