I’m about to start a new job (first SWE job), and was wondering how people build up their engineering portfolio once they start working at companies?
Do you have to explicitly ask companies permission to put certain projects on your resume / GitHub?

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You could negotiate this as part of your job offer, after getting the job offer. As you gain more experience, you get more leverage. You have to work on yourself: in your free time, build side projects. When finding a job, pick the job that is most interesting and in line with your career. Find a job with more open source aspects (some companies have open source). A lot of companies have proprietary code they do not want on GitHub.

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My portfolio could definitely use some work too but I feel like I don’t even know where to start..

Check any NDAs you may have signed with the companies you have worked or are working for. If not covered by NDA or any confidentiality agreement or clauses, it should be ok to put into your portfolio. Just try to keep it sort of general, just to cover your back.

Read the fine print and ask. It varies from company to company. If you can't show anything you have worked on, then create sample projects of your own that highlight your skills.

I think it's definitely a matter of asking, and also I still work on side projects/freelance etc where I have more flexibility to add that to my portfolio

I was going to suggest this - freelance gigs are perfect for beefing up your portfolio.

Check out Upwork for freelance work

It seems like my new company will not let me take freelance opportunities if it involves ‘significant’ time commitment in/out of company work. But employee agreement also had a clause on letting the company know if I were to get into a significant commitment like freelancing? Was your employee agreement similar?

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