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An empty, boring, or bad GitHub account never hurts, but a good one can definitely help. Things I'm looking for are interesting projects, contributions to other
by Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
An empty, boring, or bad GitHub account never hurts, but a good one can definitely help. Things I'm looking for are interesting projects, contributions to other projects (perhaps ones I know about), good discipline in git commits, well organized code, attention to detail (as in code style), and good interactions in tickets and code reviews. I'm not interested in whether or not your GitHub projects use any particular languages or technologies that are relevant to the role.
There's this idea that no one should be expected to spend their spare time working on open source, which is fair. However, that are many candidates that do, and it helps a lot with the screening process. We might waste more of your time and ours if we have to coax out the kind of insight that I can get from a GitHub profile over the course of several phone screens and IRL interviews.