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In my experience, developers with GitHub repos or other work usually are more interested in what they do. For me, that translates to people that are proud of th
by mattkrea 11y ago
In my experience, developers with GitHub repos or other work usually are more interested in what they do. For me, that translates to people that are proud of the code they write and more interested in the job rather than someone that just comes in and churns out code without consideration for others or the long term.
- kasey_junk 11y agoYou should be aware that your bias is ruling out tons of great developers. Defence, finance, biotech, etc. frequently have very restrictive ip agreements with their developers, such that if they do have public repos it will certainly be at best toy examples.
- mattkrea 11y agoWe don't rule them out by any means but it is a big plus. If someone demonstrates in an interview that they have an interest (we usually have a brief test we send out via email just to see how they do also) we're totally fine with that.
- eecks 11y agoI'm a good developer and don't write any open source code and I don't have anything on GitHub.
- muzani 11y agoThat makes sense, but in my case, I actually have a lot of full app releases which are more complex, with higher ratings than most jobs I'm applying for. Skill level and interest is no question. What I wonder is that sometimes it seems to be a moral stance. You can see all these companies proud of what they contribute to OSS, using that fact to attract engineers. So it's not just about skill and passion.