I've been a hiring manager for 10+ years and I've used the candidate's code on GitHub for helping pre-interview screening decisions numerous times. Good code on

I've been a hiring manager for 10+ years and I've used the candidate's code on GitHub for helping pre-interview screening decisions numerous times. Good code on GitHub is a good sign, of course I can change my mind after actually interviewing the candidate. This phrase from the article over simplifies this and is frankly childish: "People still seem to think that you can figure out how talented a developer is merely by looking at their open source contributions" Duh. It says that some people "still" think that you can do that by "merely" looking at their OSS contributions. But maybe, just maybe, others can use it "merely" as a data point.