I manage teams at Amazon and personally, I will look into the GitHub profile if they have called it out on the resume. But I do it only to understand the candid

I manage teams at Amazon and personally, I will look into the GitHub profile if they have called it out on the resume. But I do it only to understand the candidate's interest and not as a hiring decision point. Amazon interviews look for leadership principles and technical skills (more specifically, coding on whiteboard, system design within 30 minutes etc.). There is a lot more emphasis on quick thinking, being able to understand what the interviewer is looking for and focus on that, asking questions to disambiguate the problem etc., none of which are answered by the GitHub profile. Further, a lot of senior engineers would not be active on GitHub.. Most of them are already working full-time elsewhere and it would be unfair to them to consider what they do in their free time as a hiring decision point. We can argue if the interview is fair and provides the right set of candidates, but that is going to be pretty much a different discussion.