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I've seen a few applicants who had faked Github profile graph data. I found this a good indicator of the developer personality/ethics, and we happily passed on

• sov 10y ago
  If you've passed on them how could you know whether or not it was actually a good indicator of personality/ethics?
• wotter 10y ago
  How do you fake it? And how do you know if someone's faked it? :S
  • ocdtrekkie 10y ago
    Checking their actual commits. If their activity is menial like adding a letter to a file over and over, they obviously aren't legitimately writing that much code.
  • Jach 10y ago
    https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti and similar are pretty easy to spot. As a user I'd be biased to someone who used that for fun over someone who ('faking' or in all seriousness) has a ton of repos with lots of activity that are ultimately just things like node's left-pad...
  • avinassh 10y ago
    By using tools like Rockstar - https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar (PS: I wrote it)