Well I think many of these startup companies are looking for "rockstar", "ninja" code warriors..whatever that means. I think they are trying to attract the most

Well I think many of these startup companies are looking for "rockstar", "ninja" code warriors..whatever that means. I think they are trying to attract the most promising talent in the next generation of up and coming programmers. They try to search these candidates out by making a github profile (or some other open source contribution) mandatory. I think experience does matter though. Even a talented young programmer can get into big trouble by trying to do cute and clever things. They may not have the experience to know that generic database design is generally a really horrible idea, etc.