GitHub is not the best metric, though. 1. Many (most) engineers are not in positions to be able to meaningfully contribute to OSS (e.g. all the code I write fo

GitHub is not the best metric, though. 1. Many (most) engineers are not in positions to be able to meaningfully contribute to OSS (e.g. all the code I write for work is proprietary). 2. It can easily be faked. 3. Personal projects can sometimes be interesting, but often don't showcase usefulness (unless front-end). 4. Many high quality engineers don't like to spend their free time doing more of their job. Some repos, of course, are more impactful though. And I would probably say that if you are someone who loves to write code 16 hours a day, more power to you, you deserve to be hired! But many quality engineers would get missed if that is the desired bar (which is fine - other companies will just scoop them up). (edit: OSS engineers extra upset by what I'm saying, but there is a lot more to this world than just what shows up in your GitHub feed)