I definitely have when interviewing candidates. One curious guy had repos with seemingly auto generated daily commits. Just text files, no code. It may have be

I definitely have when interviewing candidates. One curious guy had repos with seemingly auto generated daily commits. Just text files, no code. It may have been class notes I guess, but it looked suspicious I reccommended not hiring. Company hired him. He was awful and had to be let go after a few months. I seem to get a lot of recruiters who use databases that scraped GitHub and find me.