I am speaking from a requirement standpoint. By requiring OSS commits, I am heavily favoring people who worked for OSS companies. This may be a good thing or a

I am speaking from a requirement standpoint. By requiring OSS commits, I am heavily favoring people who worked for OSS companies. This may be a good thing or a bad thing. I do not disagree on the value of looking at OSS, I just feel that requiring it is going to cause you to pre-emptively filter your candidate list. Now if that is what you want there is nothing wrong with that, it just may not be obvious that is what you are doing. Note that I am assuming you are looking for complex work, github is great for seeing if they can at least program, but I would trust a quick whiteboard problem more for that level of technical aptitude.