What if there is no portfolio for a resume, but there is experience?

Question

Career in IT

What to do if you plan to change jobs in the future, and behind you:

1. a bunch of old freelance sites, the code of which is embarrassing to show, and they all did not take off (not because of me): traffic 100 people per day maximum
   
2. empty github account
   
3. a couple of intranets of closed CRMs - it’s not bad here, but I can’t demonstrate or give it for review
   

In general, I started writing more or less "at the level" only in the last six months or a year, and it so happened that I don't have any portfolio/review code to be proud of. Should I now frantically fill in these gaps? Do some contrived open source, for example. Or you can pass the interview on "pure knowledge"?

Answer 1

Nobody really needs Github and tons of code.
In your resume, write down the most difficult moments / problems that you solved in your projects, what languages, approaches you used, what you managed to achieve.
In the application, you can add quite a bit of code, the most interesting sections from your point of view.
In short, describe what you did, what you managed to solve, and most importantly, what you want and will decide in the future.
When and if in an interview you reach a person in the subject, I think you will quickly understand each other and without unnecessary things, and intermediate recruiters cannot understand this, and do not need to understand.
In short, do not strain, just outline the technologies that you know and what problems you solved / are able to solve.

Answer 2

attendance is definitely not a criterion .. code .. but what is the code .. not the gods burned the pots)))
.. but if there are a LOT of them ... dude ... this is already a topic ;)))
ps for one broken, two not beaten give

Answer 3

If you are not hired because there is no portfolio, and if you are hired, then just work