I agree - the times where I've been tasked with finding new team members - definitely open source repos were huge plus and first order filter - perhaps even bef

I agree - the times where I've been tasked with finding new team members - definitely open source repos were huge plus and first order filter - perhaps even before resume. That said I don't think I ever mentioned that to the candidates or to the team members that ended up joining. Nor did they ever get to skip the rest of the interview process.