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As a developer, is there a reason to use LinkedIn at all, since Github provides all the evidence needed to vouch for a person's skills?

• eykanal 14y ago
  Because many, many programmers don't store their code on Github, as the majority of their work is on proprietary, closed-source projects for for-profit companies.
  • logn 14y ago
    And many people don't like Git.
    • pavel_lishin 14y ago
      But for those that do use git, and do use github, wouldn't github do the trick? Their interface is simple enough that you don't need to know git to browse around a potential candidate's code, evaluate their interests and abilities, etc.
      • endersshadow 14y ago
        For vetting somebody, yeah, but that's not what LinkedIn is used for by a vast majority of people. It's used to get introductions into businesses as a lead-generation method for B2B firms, and finding people to recruit. You get them into the recruiting bucket, and then filter it out as you vet them. You're misunderstanding the purpose of LinkedIn: It's not there to be a resume, it's there to be a discoverable and up-to-date contact list.
• nollidge 14y ago
  You're living in a bubble if you think more than 10% of recruiters have even heard of Github.
  • hack_edu 14y ago
    Or, that anyone hiring or interviewing you (recruiter or developer) will actually evaluate your work beyond that you have a couple repos with more than a couple files in them.
  • ericclemmons 14y ago
    I think several recruiters have heard of Github, but that it is too resource-intensive to research candidates this way, when tons of software has been developed to chop up résumés for querying =/