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I think that, all other things being equal, you're likely to get a better offer with a solid github profile though.

• mseebach 11y ago
  But only if all other things indeed are equal. It most likely can't hurt, but if you start leaning on it in anyway, assuming that it can replace making an effort on your actual CV, or developing even the faintest teint of entitlement around what's expected of you in a recruitment process, it can very quickly become a liability. If you're so obviously awesome that you can expect to special-case the recruitment process (because of your GitHub profile or celebrity status or something else), you'll generally know it. If you're uncertain, you probably can't. I've seen a good number of GitHub profiles in a recruitment capacity in my time. Most of them are fairly trivial -- a personal blog engine, small tools, bit and pieces, vim/emacs config files, forks of popular repos with small edits, more often than not cosmetic. Sometimes small fixes PR'd back. Inevitably, presented with little-to-no context. Rarely are the repos 'live', so I can discover how the owner grows a project over time, they are often single (or few) commit code dumps. Only extremely rarely have I seen a project of any complexity (written by the applicant) that could serve a the basis for deeper discussion. At least once has the applicant apologised for not being able to discuss it very deeply, because it was a few years ago.