Thought provoking for me, as I've been involved in hiring folks in the past. I think the current trend is to use traditional methods of looking at a candidate

Thought provoking for me, as I've been involved in hiring folks in the past. I think the current trend is to use traditional methods of looking at a candidate (resume, cover letter, interview) and augment the background check with a combination of GitHub profile + Stackoverflow profile + side projects.