The "every good hacker has a github account" sentiment is a bit scary to me. As far as I know, after signing my hiring contract, all of my work is owned by the

The "every good hacker has a github account" sentiment is a bit scary to me. As far as I know, after signing my hiring contract, all of my work is owned by the company. Even work done at home; owned by the company. I do not believe this is unusual, every company I have worked for has had me sign a similar contract. If I make the perfect sandwich, the recipe is company property. I am not allowed to distribute company owned assets without the company's permission; and I am not going to ask the company for permission to share code they haven't seen on github. Even if I wasn't contractually restricted, I would not contribute to a github account. My spare time is spent working on research projects for my corporation's benefit. Many of these become real products. A few I've had patented. These make us real money; github does not. I hope I am not, in the future, disregarded for a job because I am missing a link to a github account in my resume.