Interviewer: What’s your biggest weakness? Me: I don’t know when to quit. Interviewer: You’re hired. Me: I quit.

As a junior dev these videos make me feel so much better about my feelings of inadequacy 😭

The casing of 'IMDb' was correct. press f to oof

Not to nitpick or anything, but on the first portfolio where you pointed out she missed the capital 'b' in the IMDb, she's actually correct. IMDb uses a lowercase 'b'. Great video!

Conclusion: Don't say anything in your portfolio

Man so many people make tiny mistakes in usability and common sense that are really self-sabotaging their chances. This is a bit encouraging. I feel like once my technical skills are up to par, all I have to do is avoid common sense mistakes, and I'll be able to stand out.

This is actually surprisingly interesting for someone making their own portfolio. I think more so than the person being reviewed, is it gives a lot of examples for people that haven't made one yet, and what to look out for before even beginning to design it.

Thank you Josh for taking the time to review my portfolio! Awesome feedback!

As a junior dev this helped me see the pros and cons of animations! Simplicity is best!

This was actually a really great resource, thank you!

Getting ready to build mine, this type of feedback is exactly what I need!!

Guy: *creates entire website to showcase his coding skills* Interviewer: "we saw you had a b, we were looking for a B"

Love these portfolio review videos josh

Those portfolio reviews are great, man! Appreciate it

I can just imagine how those people who made the portfolios felt after watching this video lol.

A lot of these mistakes are understandable because as developers we try to create things to express ourselves..and depending on the personality one can tend to overshare. Some of these items MAY be fine for a personal site/blog but I agree that if these are part of a resume portfolio it should be straight to the point.

When I first played the video, I thought I accidentally clicked a video from animal channel. lol

Hey Joshua! You are the realest dev youtuber I have ever seen! Thank you for your work, you are really down to earth, smart and understanding the big picture. If I wasnt a broke junior dev, I would totally support you by all means! You deserve a lot for your real help.

Omg this reminds me of my first project presentation, damn brings me back memories. Loved it.

Surprising to me that most of these portfolios have so many creative and unique UI elements, but it's all taken away by an unpleasant UX. Maybe its because I'm a native iOS developer, but a good UX with a simple UI seems so much easier to build than bad UX and a complex UI, yet all these portfolios did exactly that.

I look at these portfolios all the time and the skill bar thing is super common. I'm involved with hiring and managers always want to see where you see yourself skill wise and that you're self aware enough to rate yourself accurately

Thank you for making me feel much better.

The good, the bad, and the broken. I really like this series. Please keep doing it.

This is great 👍. Awesome reviews Josh 🤓

Great introduction.

This is SO helpful! Thank you for your videos!!

and that's why web design is a beast in and of itself. you can be amazing with syntax but if you don't have the designing sense, you won't go far by yourself.

This was very helpful for creating a web development and design portfolio. Thanks!!!!

They actually had a lot of great tips thanks

last one was quite good (design), but you guys also made some good points in terms of navigation.

Great Quality Content. Love your chill.

great series. Keep up!

Nice feedback. Been watching heaps of your videos recently. Great content. Thanks legend

This was a reminder to me of what common mistakes one can make. Thank you for this. Talking about portfolios, I think most were the examples of Good UI with Bad UX. The efforts are appreciated tho. I believe the key element to become a good front-end dev is *Empathy.* Everyone needs to work on it, no matter how much we think how naturally empathetic of a person we are.

very helpful !!

this is really interesting, im not going into web development, but I am going into Game Development, so it's nice to see what I should have readily available on my portfolio website.

Great tips. Thanks for the video guys.

Basically what I got from this is that its better to hold back on the design, it's nice to try and look different but if it doesn't work then you're better off with a very simple page

These videos make me so much more confident in my abilities

Dude you're so real!! Love this!

So helpful man

I like how no bs this is. Thank you

Hi Joshua, thank you for incredibly informative videos. They’re so high quality and helpful for someone trying to break into this field.

This video helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome!

Found your post interesting to watch. I can't wait to see your new videos soon. Good Luck with the upcoming update. This KZfaq channel is really very informative and effective.

now i gained some confidence! Thanks.

Great video~ Enjoyed it!

Very cool video and information to reference!

Love your show!

Very useful video, thank you

keep these vids comin

This made me feel better lol

Ruthless critique. Love it.

This was really cool. It gave me some helpful tips for my portfolio site.

Loved the vid

Motivating

Great content man

yoooo the start footage was fire you should be a cinemetographer forget this dev shit

Thanks very informative :)

There are things on these portfolios, like rating yourself, or putting your picture, that we're main reasons I've landed jobs..

I was here trying to see how i could mesure up but one thing i will definitely take away is "development" does not just refer to coding 😂

This was fun.

this makes me feel great about my designing.

just made my day

4:05 css grid can fix that uneven grid height 10:09 not that his site will be properly responsive, but sometimes you have to refresh to get the site to render correctly when changing devices, drives me nuts at work regularly. 14:43 perhaps separate the portfolio site from the freelance lander, the two combined doesn't work

thanks for reviews +1 sub

Here at 8:37 I don't really see the problem with the React boilerplate "create-react-app." It's simply just to get a React project setup quickly without having to edit configs and such. From there, the developer creates the website from scratch, just like any other plain HTML + CSS website. The only problem I see with it is not changing the title or favicon.

So i was not expecting to like this much the video and content, learned a lot with all what you talked about. Hitting that sub button ASAP.

Very good video, I was looking for help with this topic since I graduated and I am looking for a job as Dev... Thanks for the help...

When you went to the "Hogle Zoo", were you like "This is the spot"?

The second guy just followed a traversy video and sent it in 😂

You've got a join button now!

That "we appreciate you" feels so "HR" like.

ooof the react boiler plate on the read me that is a dead giveaway

"Even though I'm like, 30k subscribers" 132k subscribers in 6 months?? All deserved.

You never really answered your question in the title. I clicked for that.

Companies and people who push this gamification of interviews and job hunting are a core problem with the job market these days. What ever happened to picking the RIGHT employees? I worked for Wegmans, a family owned grocery chain in the mid/North Atlantic. The core of their hiring process was vetting you as a person because “you can train someone to manage this, stock that, etc. but you can’t teach them to be a good human”, and should you lie your way through and get the job, you’d very quickly be found out by how you perform relative to the long-standing employees. They had the lowest turnover rate I’d ever seen at any company because of this strategy, and because they put employees first.

Nice start men, keep it like that ;)

I feel SO much better about becoming a Jr Dev after this.

BRB redoing my entire portfolio

I am a pretty senior dev. I interview a lot of people. I would say I mostly look at are they trainable and will they fit in with the group culture.

Legend says he is still hustling for join button!

i would take this advice with a grain of salt

13:25 I think that last option is nice, because you could just set X=9 and you would get 9 pages for 9 hours and an estimated cost of $9, everything included.

@Joshua Fluke Would you mind explaining again how you calculated the hourly rate into an annual salary? Is that the way employers calculate that? It was really interesting to see that and would be really nice to get your take on this it's always hard for new developers to set the correct hourly rate.

The “b” in IMDb is not capitalised. So that résumé was correct.

My mans said 30k followers. Great job you’ve come a long way!

6:49 is Traversy's CSS portfolio challenge layout. Check it lol. Many people would recognize it as Brad is probably one of the best online teachers out there. it needs some changes...

I would love to see more of these!!! But answer whether or not they are job ready next time :P

Most important part. Where’d you find those sick beats in the beginning?

You are rude in an honest and satifying way. I enjoyed this.

started learning code yesterday and briefly touched on html after learning an overview of git. i wonder how my website would look like to show my projects and contact infos in the future. heres to hoping i can keep learning and obtain a job in the near future

That poor guy who typed IMDb correctly.

What are the main skills expected from a front end/ junior developer and what on what level ? I'm just getting started learning html and css, after I feel like I have good foundation with that, I will learn javascript. I know I properly have a long way to go, but i'm starting to really like this, and I hope it one day will give me the chance to escape my regular 9-5 job where I have to show up at the office all the time

I love that intro remix of "You're the Cream in my Coffee."!

Don't ever be afraid to show an employer who you really are. If you want to find an employer that's right for you, why would you fake who you are? I used to do that and would always end up not enjoying my workplace. So as long as what you're into doesn't harm yourself or others, talk about it. You never know, the employer could be into the same type of thing you are and that really could be what gets you the job. You don't want to land the job as someone the employer thought you were and end up being totally different. That could create a lot of tension between you and your employer. Stay true to yourself. The right employer is out there for all of us 🤙🏼

"Two pairs of eyes are better than one", pun intended?

What did I learn. Prompt HR to set their screen resolution. 😂

That little trick with converting the hourly wage to annual salary by multiplying by 2 and adding 4% is pretty cool. It's actually an exact calculation of what you would earn (in thousands) working that hourly for 40 hours/week for the 52 weeks of the year: h*2 + .04(h*2) = 2.08h, * 1000 = 2080h h*40*52= 2080h