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I've had many, many interviews where I actually had to ask the interviewer "Did you take a look at my GitHub repositories and contributions?" only to be answere

I've had many, many interviews where I actually had to ask the interviewer "Did you take a look at my GitHub repositories and contributions?" only to be answered with "No, I didn't have enough time, etc. etc." It's shocking to me. Can we please cut through the songs-and-dances and talk about actual, real-world code?

gaius 9y ago
To be fair the days when Github was a strong signal are long over. When interviewing it is rarely worth the interviewers time to look and figure out if it is original code or just forks. Whether the CV is well formatted and free of spelling mistakes is actually a much stronger signal than whether it has a Github link on or not.
- malyk 9y ago
  Agreed. Every single time I've ever looked at a github profile for a candidate they've had 1 or 2 original repositories that are as bare bones as possible and 18 forked repositories so it "looks" to the untrained eye (i'm guessing recruiters) that they have an active profile.
  - Vendan 9y ago
    And then you have others with 90+ repos, and 75%+ of them are original code, and have thousands and thousands of lines of code. Maybe all your candidates have been weak/just out of school. Also, forked repos are fairly obvious, and there's a dropdown to just show source repos, and if they are manually forking to prevent it from showing as a fork on there, that's a pretty shady indicator that you may want to follow up on...
    - gaius 9y ago
      Those candidates are 1 in 100, seriously. If you have a stack of CVs to filter, it literally is not worth looking at everybody's Github to check. Just filter by formatting and spelling and you're probably good.
      - Vendan 9y ago
        And that's why I think resume based hiring is shit, cause my resume isn't great, but my github and skills are stellar. But people like you would chuck my resume in the trash without thinking twice cause I'm not currently working as a programmer.
        gaius 9y ago
        If that's true, the target of your blame should be the weak candidates who flooded Github with junk repos. And/or whichever journo or blogger started telling those people that "having a Github" was a shortcut through the hiring process.

gaius 9y ago

To be fair the days when Github was a strong signal are long over. When interviewing it is rarely worth the interviewers time to look and figure out if it is original code or just forks. Whether the CV is well formatted and free of spelling mistakes is actually a much stronger signal than whether it has a Github link on or not.

malyk 9y ago
Agreed. Every single time I've ever looked at a github profile for a candidate they've had 1 or 2 original repositories that are as bare bones as possible and 18 forked repositories so it "looks" to the untrained eye (i'm guessing recruiters) that they have an active profile.
- Vendan 9y ago
  And then you have others with 90+ repos, and 75%+ of them are original code, and have thousands and thousands of lines of code. Maybe all your candidates have been weak/just out of school. Also, forked repos are fairly obvious, and there's a dropdown to just show source repos, and if they are manually forking to prevent it from showing as a fork on there, that's a pretty shady indicator that you may want to follow up on...
  - gaius 9y ago
    Those candidates are 1 in 100, seriously. If you have a stack of CVs to filter, it literally is not worth looking at everybody's Github to check. Just filter by formatting and spelling and you're probably good.
    - Vendan 9y ago
      And that's why I think resume based hiring is shit, cause my resume isn't great, but my github and skills are stellar. But people like you would chuck my resume in the trash without thinking twice cause I'm not currently working as a programmer.
      - gaius 9y ago
        If that's true, the target of your blame should be the weak candidates who flooded Github with junk repos. And/or whichever journo or blogger started telling those people that "having a Github" was a shortcut through the hiring process.