At least when recruiting offshore, github has been a great filter. People who have github usually end up sharing a bunch of characteristics: they enjoy coding,

At least when recruiting offshore, github has been a great filter. People who have github usually end up sharing a bunch of characteristics: they enjoy coding, they know more api integrations, they are continuously improving. I'll add the general caveat that it obviously doesn't apply to every GitHub member but to many. And that is just fine when you have a huge pool of candidates and you need a decent filter for the upstream.