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I am developing this Android game (Technology wise 3D with OpenGLES2 and shaders, some nice AI with http://www.steeringbehaviors.de/ ) during my free time. The goal is to launched in the "Android Market" and apply for a mobile game development company.And during the interview to show my "game project". I was wondering if the company is not game company ,but a mobile development one ,is it still okay to show it even if they didn't ask about it ? |
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Sure. Show things that show that you have passion, enthusiasm, and want to follow difficult things down peculiar rabbit-holes. After all - during an interview they will be trying to find somebody who is capable, enthusiastic, curious, competent.... You get the idea. |
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If something shows off your skills, use it If you apply for a job at a bank, you wouldn't hide your experience in programming microcontrollers or logistics solutions, so why hide a mobile game from a mobile company? Just make sure you don't derogate your accomplishments by eccessively calling it "hobby project", if you do it with your professional skillset, it's as much a valid project as most employeers projects. That doesn't mean you should lie about that, just don't focus on the "hobbyness", focus on the project's merits. |
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I think being able to show actual proof that you can develop real software is always useful. It certainly can't hurt. |
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Yap.Showing effort is always better then talk. |
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First, ask yourself: Does it matter to work in a company which feels disesteem for your hobby? If so, show your project. Then, you will see whether you want to work there. |
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Only if they ask you about your hobby projects. Don't shoe horn it in - I'd find that weird Don't just bring it up with no relevant prompting, if you speak for fifteen mins abotu a project no one has asked you about it won't look good. The employer will have questions they want to ask fit around them not the other way around. |
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