Is it possible to consider work experience when developing your project?

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Is it possible to consider work experience when developing your project?
The total experience of my work in companies (there were two of them) is about 8 months (react, react native). I want to leave and do my own project. I wondered if it would be possible to indicate work on my project in my resume? Will this information be as attractive to the employer as the length of service in an existing company?

Answer 1

Yes, you can, consider
If anything, you say Vlatka allowed

Answer 2

Commercial experience is usually more valuable than non-commercial experience. Some people simply ignore this experience. If the project is some kind of cool open source, then this may well be taken into account.

Answer 3

As one of the main developers of Windows said - "You don't even understand half a percent how a commercial product is developed." He said this to students of the largest universities (probably the USA).
That, of course not. Although, if your project has more than several million active users, then theorists can.

Answer 4

If you have a personality disorder where there is a personality-customer, a personality-manager and they agree on something among themselves, then dumping out not always adequate technical specifications for the personality-programmer, then of course such an experience is considered :)

Answer 5

Even successful experience can go to you both in "plus" and "minus".
Look for articles about hiring former entrepreneurs, read them. In short, some employers do not take them precisely because of the experience of running their own projects. They are afraid that they will find out the secrets and leave to create a competing office.
But this is not a universal principle.
In general, you will have to individually think through your resumes all your life, figure out how much a particular employer will like such an experience, and correct this place in the text in one direction or another.

Answer 6

Depends on what happens with the project, maybe you will do shit, maybe you will become a millionaire on it

Answer 7

I want to leave and do my own project.

absolutely idiotic.
What will you live on?
Or do you think that your project will take off and become the second Facebook? No, it won't even be 0.0001%

Will this information be as attractive to the employer as the length of service in an existing company?

No. They, for the most part, do not care about your pet projects.
Nobody looks at them, nobody looks at github.
It has always been so.
And if they do look, then 2-3 files will work. These are statistics (mine) from github.
Resumes for vacancies come in 10 pieces, and people are frankly too lazy to thoroughly even read these resumes "from and to".
You can’t run away from an interview, even though you rivet 100 projects.
And you will not get any profit from your own developments in terms of successful employment, except for personal knowledge capital.