I have seen it being looked at out if interest when the candidate provides a link to their GitHub. The candidate would never even know. The one thing seeing th

I have seen it being looked at out if interest when the candidate provides a link to their GitHub. The candidate would never even know. The one thing seeing that happen taught me is to curate my public repos very carefully and leave the rest private. Assume they are willing to click through to about 2 ~ 3 repos max and attempt to read the readme if there is one and find some samples of code if they can. That's how I've seen it play out. To that end, if you have 30 repos and they just happen to click through to a React tutorial you did that contains barely any code and it's obviously not original the result is they just kinda wind up losing interest. If, on the other hand, you have a reasonably well documented project with hundreds of commits against it that's original work it stands out.