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Not in my experience. Most job boards are dominated by technical recruiters so, to get in through them, you play by their rules.

In their world, web presence of projects almost never counts. The rationale is that "anyone can point to my work and claim they did it." The preference for assessment is still resume keywords, good references, and multiple choice tests.

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There's a huge trend of engineering managers to take things in control to avoid this. Every time I had an HR person between me and a candidate they managed to screw something up. Here're some better job boards.

http://wearenytech.com/jobs (New York based) http://careers.stackoverflow.com

I'm liking this trend you speak of but it hasn't reached everywhere yet. I live in the middle of Connecticut and there are 2 companies total that post anything on the Stack Overflow boards. So, the reality of the situation would seem to leave 3 options for people in my neighborhood.

1. Play by the rules of the local recruiters. 2. Telecommute. 3. Move.

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