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At this point I won’t consider any GitHub activity after ~2024 as hiring signals unless it’s very substantial work on high profile projects that clearly have hi
by oefrha 9mo ago
At this point I won’t consider any GitHub activity after ~2024 as hiring signals unless it’s very substantial work on high profile projects that clearly have high bars.
- Aurornis 9mo agoSadly that was already the case prior to LLMs. We had a bootcamp in our city that had all students build a GitHub portfolio. They all built the same projects like a TODO app. Every person’s code would like almost identical because they all did them together and, I suspect, copied from past grads. They all applied to the same local jobs, too. So we’d get a batch of their resumes with GitHub links, follow the GitHub links, and see basically the same codebase repeated everywhere.
- oefrha 9mo agoI mean I never considered having GitHub projects as anything. If you have project(s) that seem useful and have let's say a hundred stars or more (rough signal assuming no foul play), I'll have a look. If you say you have meaningful contributions to projects with a thousand stars or more, I may have a look as well. Now my bars are so massively higher, 99.95% of juniors who don't have pre-2024 work to show can forget about it.
- ryandrake 9mo agoI kind of suspected that some bootcamp or college or something is telling all these people to just go to GitHub, create an account, spam it with activity, and you'll get a job! At this point I don't think "has a GitHub account" can be used as any signal of programming ability whatsoever.