Hiring manager perspective: I've looked at maybe two of them at some point in the process. Mostly it was just academic stuff. I noticed no correlation with qual

Hiring manager perspective: I've looked at maybe two of them at some point in the process. Mostly it was just academic stuff. I noticed no correlation with quality of the developer's skills. Also, my company is primarily hiring technical staff from Latin America, and it's been wildly successful. In this small, non-representative sample, those developers definitely all rank in the top 20% of our technical staff in terms of commitment, ownership, and efficiency, so this experiment seems to be paying off rather than proving a mistake. I say the above not to denigrate anyone or to discourage you, but just to point out that there are probably a number of startups like mine which are sitting on the sidelines of the US tech job market, which is definitely going to decrease number of interviews and offers you're getting.