While my hiring manager experience predates GitHub, I would be more concerned in verifying that they actually did what they claimed than that I agreed with the

While my hiring manager experience predates GitHub, I would be more concerned in verifying that they actually did what they claimed than that I agreed with the specifics of their commits. If they got the the tasks completed, that's a Good Sign. People lie horribly on resumes. I would not be surprised in the least to see people claiming GitHub accounts that are not their own. I have seen LinkedIn career logs from MSFT with people claiming to have done things that _I_ did back when I worked there. One of the most annoying things about phone screens was the huge number of them where it turned out the person was a complete, total liar. I spent much more time on verification than details. After all, most decisions in the small only make sense in the context of the whole program, history, backwards compatibility needs, project plans, etc. and it would be pretty arrogant to second-guess somebody's patches to a large system without the greater context.