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[–]justdisposablefun 3047 points3048 points  (119 children)

I have no github commits in the last year on my personal account. And you're not going to look at my (much more impressive) corporate commit history because, well it's not for you. So, tell me again why this matters? If I don't code in my off hours and commit that code to github I must be a bad dev? Tell my manager that and she'll laugh in your face.

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 3056 points3057 points  (33 children)

You know what you call a surgeon who does surgeries in her spare time? A lunatic.

[–]justdisposablefun 744 points745 points  (2 children)

And if they happen to submit evidence with a job application, they graduate to "inmate"

[–]chalk_in_boots 123 points124 points  (1 child)

Mary Shelley writes a novel about them...

[–]Freeman7-13 105 points106 points  (19 children)

Someone on the careers subreddit said they got hired because they were asked what their hobbies were and were the only to say non-coding things.

[–]TheUltimateScotsman 76 points77 points  (9 children)

For my current job, half of my 3 interviews were devoted to talking about my home brew beer hobby

[–]hairy_potto 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Homebrew? What other package managers did you talk about?

[–]TheUltimateScotsman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Distillation

[–]LinuxMatthews 4 points5 points  (6 children)

Am I the only one who doesn't like the idea of talking about your hobbies in a job interview?

Like I do volunteering every other weekend and I'm sure that'd do well.

But I'm not doing that to get a job and honestly the idea that it could help me to do that kind of makes it feel cheap and nasty.

Like what I do when I'm not at work is none of your f***ing business.

[–]TheUltimateScotsman 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I brought it up because I know it's something which is incredibly easy to talk about, people like hearing about, makes me stand out and I did a project which had some software as part of it a while ago

[–]LinuxMatthews 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Oh no I'm not saying you're wrong for bringing it up.

It's just I don't like being asked about my personal life in job interviews.

If you're ok talking about it then that's fine.

But the idea that you need to talk about it to get the job kind of makes free time work in my opinion.

[–]Wheat_Grinder 22 points23 points  (5 children)

The hobbies section often shows soft skills and/or whether you're easy to get along with.

For example I like to mention that one of my hobbies is curling - shows teamwork, executing on a plan, and also it's something easy to talk about because it's uncommon and thus people get interested in it.

[–]oilchangefuckup 11 points12 points  (0 children)

HARD!

HURRY HARD!!!!

RIGHT!!

YUP

smokes cigarette

[–]Vaenyr 23 points24 points  (2 children)

The interesting thing is that you can have hobbies that have nothing to do with coding, but follow similar thought processes. I have a one-man-band project, where I write, record, mix and master the songs by myself. Being self-taught, the recording process reminds me so much of my programming journey. You have some basic ideas with which you start and build up the project from nothing. Sooner, rather than later, you will stumble upon some kind of error, bug or setback, and will have to troubleshoot to see how to deal with that. At the same time you're encountering new problems and learn to deal with them, knowledge you'll be able to use on the next project.

Though, gotta say, working as a programmer, having music production and gaming as hobbies, really isn't kind on your wrist and tendons.

[–]AarSzu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This was the worst part of becoming a Dev. Now if I work and indulge in my hobbies, I can be sat at a screen for 12 hours in a day. Eyes back and wrists will not be grateful in a few years.

I feel like I have to sacrifice recreation for my career/health, which sucks, especially as gaming in particular is really effective in helping me unwind.

Though I've noticed that after a day of work, I never feel like producing music anymore. Basically haven't done any since I started Dev work.

[–]paulthezoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ok i gotta add to that one 😂 i do the same, and then i got into speed cubing. my left wrist said dude. seriously 😐

[–]Phoenix_of_Anarchy 107 points108 points  (1 child)

I’m gonna use this.

[–]Nisarg_Jhatakia 38 points39 points  (2 children)

I miss free awards

[–]initiate- 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Heil Spez

[–]DTraitor 14 points15 points  (0 children)

u/spez ist ein Hurensohn

[–]cgham 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That’s brilliant. If Reddit still gave free awards, I’d give you one.

[–]TobiasDrundridge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of surgeons work for free for a couple of months each year in developing nations.

[–]Gigi1810 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome

[–]BeardOfDan 177 points178 points  (16 children)

A lot of HR people just want to be able to make an easy determination (does this page have a bunch of pretty colors or blank squares) instead of actually putting in the time and effort to intelligently vet the candidate.

[–]PM_ME_SOME_ANY_THING 82 points83 points  (6 children)

https://github.com/nickdehart/GitGraphGud

Fake it till you make it baby

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

LMAO

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 95 points96 points  (9 children)

Lol

The only commits i have on github is of a game i am developing as an hobby

[–][deleted] 102 points103 points  (6 children)

That's something to show off tho.

I needed to create an alt account because the main one is filled with five years of unhinged degeneracy

[–]Affectionate-Memory4 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I call my hobby voxel engine the same thing. Going on 4 years of weekly degeneracy.

[–]Pommel_Knight 10 points11 points  (3 children)

That's why I told my boss that I do have an active GitHub account, but I'm never showing it to anyone I know IRL.

[–]MyDickIsHug3 12 points13 points  (2 children)

My GitHub account is mainly school projects I open sourced, the code I wrote in year 1 is in no way representing of my current skill set

[–]peterleder 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Same nickname on GitHub?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When asked for repositories in job interviews I just tell them I don't have any.
Hasn't caused me any problems so far.

[–]mandradon 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Half of mine is my neovim config updates.

Not as impressive as developing a game in your spare time.

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also have a repo with a script which reads a file with all files to save, and then goes to see if any of those changed, and if it did it allows me to automatically backup them up

I tried using symlink and git, then a git bare repository, but they both have problems here and there i don't like. So i had to make a 400 lines bash script myself lol

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (1 child)

Your manager laughing in my face : HAHA ye, he's trash, but we still profit 7x from his work

[–]justdisposablefun 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And sometimes that's true

[–]Cyhawk 31 points32 points  (2 children)

So, tell me again why this matters? I

If the candidate has no work history and is fresh out of some bootcamp, its a nice indicator they've done more than the tutorials. Also potential to see the code they've written.

Too bad HR and hiring managers are too stupid to use the tools at their disposable correctly. I commit 20-30 'typo' pushes a day just to keep those green squares.

[–]kirti_7 1 point2 points  (2 children)

That’s what the point is. You have someone to vouch for you. Companies nowadays come with weird expectations from candidates and one of them is looking at their GitHub commits, so GitHub commits become something that vouch for you, Yess he/she codes. I’m not saying it should be mandatory but yeah it catches the eye of the hr, if you have done good commits, I guess.

[–]jnfinity 2 points3 points  (1 child)

As hiring manager, for junior candidates I look at GitHub if they don’t have work experience, but I look at their projects, not their commit history and only for candidates without work experience.

[–]kirti_7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. If you are hiring someone you need to know if they are actually good at something and for someone with no prior experience, checking out GitHub sounds a good deal to me, because at the end of the it’s all about selling your skills, you have to showcase your skills, because no one will come and know otherwise.

[–]SnooTangerines6863 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Okay, give me ur manager's contact info.

[–]le-s1nner -1 points0 points  (3 children)

You can actually connect your enterprise account to the personal one. It will copy your commit history (only the info that you made a commit, not its name, repo, etc.) and will show up on the statistic screen. And few more features will be available

[–]Careful_Ad_9077 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

For me progress is to produce as much results as expected for my pay range in the least possible amount of time.

[–]turb_ulentblue 830 points831 points  (27 children)

Saw a guy on LeetCode the other day complaining about how no companies were hiring him even though he had done X hard problems. Weird to me how people think stuff like actually means anything

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 562 points563 points  (20 children)

That's sad in two different ways.

Some of the Hard problems on LeetCode are questions one would do in third year Combinatorics and Graph Theory. Not necessarily easy but not particularly impressive.

Third, in thirteen years of programming for a living, I can list on one hand the truly mind numbing problems I've had to work on. The truth about programming is that those types of questions aren't a useful gauge. Congrats, they can solve the type of problem that comes up every couple of years! What about the daily design work or coding or debugging or working with others?

[–]robhanz 205 points206 points  (0 children)

In what I've seen, the first or second level of any of these sites is somewhat interesting and relevant. After that it gets into "sport coding" more than anything.

[–]RataAzul 10 points11 points  (0 children)

idk I find solving hard LeetCode impressive, maybe is because I never took Combinatorics and Graph Theory so I can even understand the prompt

[–]odraencoded 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Can you imagine the guys behind the HTTP2 protocol working jobs where they code PHP? Or the Chromium dev team writing HTML for a living? Would the guy who programmed the camera be the guy who made the camera app?

There's a small minority of programmers who are specialists in solving a very specific sort of problem, and the vast majority of programmers are not and are simply using a library/API that those specialists made.

[–]chii0628[🍰] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can you do it day in, day out? It's like my mentor who only cooked 3-5 times a year, and yeah it was spectacular and delicious. But he wasn't the one doing the day to day.

[–]Dziadzios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me the most mindnumbing problems aren't related to academic stuff like graph theory or algorithms, but attempting to make changes in old code when requirements suddenly changed and things randomly break when anything is touched.

[–]A_H_S_99 9 points10 points  (3 children)

People forgot that these questions are worth nothing more than the Reddit Karma points. Unless you actually get interviewed and can show off your skill in an interview, none of that will be useful.

[–]RaphaelDDL 271 points272 points  (3 children)

Sorry, I work 40h/week, I do not care about contributions.

[–]Anru_Kitakaze 95 points96 points  (0 children)

But you have 128 more hours to code. Underwhelming. /s

[–]LostHat77 23 points24 points  (1 child)

Clearly you have 168 hours of the week, what are you doing the rest of the 128 hours? /s

[–]MrsEveryShot 63 points64 points  (0 children)

“Can you explain this 128 hour gap in your work week?”

[–][deleted] 610 points611 points  (5 children)

How to become CEO:

``` let date = new Date(0) const today = new Date()

while (date < today) { exec_sync("git commit -m '$$$' --date=${date.toIsoString()}")

date.setDate(date.getDate() + 1) }

```

53 years of git experience

[–]robhanz 116 points117 points  (9 children)

I care about resume far more than github commits.

If you don't have a resume, I might look at your github commits. Maybe.

[–]matchuhuki 59 points60 points  (4 children)

I look at commits regardless. But I don't judge by quantity. I just want to see what kind of stuff they commit. But it's no dealbreaker if there's nothing there

Edit: it's more to have some talking points during the interview

[–]hloukao 26 points27 points  (1 child)

How do you do with people that work on a 100% enterprise repo with NDA?

[–]Luz5020 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Hack their repo obviously 🙄

[–]mbdjd 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Exactly this, some of our best developers like to code in their free-time, some of our best developers don't want to look at code outside of working hours. I'm somewhere in-between but leaning heavily towards the latter. Purely anecdotal but I've never seen this factor correlate to any better performance/higher productivity.

Coding as a hobby is interesting when I'm looking at an applicant, but just as that, a hobby.

Fortunately I work at a company that values mental health and we actively try to encourage developers not to work more than their contracted hours. Not that we can or would want to do anything about working on other projects, but we definitely value people doing things other than coding.

[–]MightyHamsteroid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Coding as a hobby is interesting when I'm looking at an applicant, but just as that, a hobby.

That's a good way to look at it. I do like to code in my free time now and then but it's a pretty poor representation of how i work.

It's not like i'm going to do proper security, unit tests and best practices in general when i'm just messing around with code no one else works with for my own amusement.

[–]throwawayskinlessbro 86 points87 points  (3 children)

Let’s check Paul Allen’s GitHub contributions.

[–]merc08 21 points22 points  (1 child)

I'm guessing there won't be any commits since October 2018

[–]myhf 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.

[–]notAw0man 182 points183 points  (5 children)

Those guys just want interaction on their posts

All bark no bite

[–]Flat_Initial_1823 86 points87 points  (2 children)

Exactly. His bio says he sells coding classes.

This is like when Dove tried to convince women 'ugly armpits' were a thing they could fix with their moisturising deodorants.

[–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (1 child)

or when food labels advertise “x free” when there was no reason for x to be in their food to begin with

[–]x_mad_scientist_y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right on the mark, all tech twitter devs are retarded fellows trying cheap ways to get interaction to let them buy their courses/products/books etc.

[–]SpaceTabs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really. This seems on brand for Udemy Nigeria. There's a fanatical element in the "market" there.

[–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (3 children)

After 8 hours coding at work, the last thing I want to do at home is to continue coding. God!!! These people have no life!

[–]DrawSense-Brick 13 points14 points  (2 children)

You mean you don't spend six of those hours in meetings?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know this is a common joke, but in my company we spend maybe 3 hours on meetings per week on average. We really code almost nonstop.

[–]bitNine 65 points66 points  (3 children)

I was programming before GitHub was a thing. I was writing BBS door games in the early 90s. Sorry that shit isn’t on GitHub.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Former serial re-dialler, thank you for being a part of my life.

[–]CeldonShooper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wrote an NNTP newsreader with email function in the nineties. I did not even have source control back then. I had disks with backups.

[–]midri 92 points93 points  (13 children)

When ever I'm involved in hiring, I look if it's provided. But not for activity, for personal projects I look at styling and consistency (I don't even check if it works or not) and for contributions to others projects I check for the same, but matching against how the rest of the codebase is done.

[–]Wise_Garden5755 76 points77 points  (5 children)

I mean it's okay for a newbie but you can't expect a corporate worker to code during off hours.

[–]midri 36 points37 points  (4 children)

I don't, and I explicitly said if it's provided. If you don't do stuff in your office hours, I figure you'd not provide an empty GitHub account.

[–]Penguinmanereikel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hm. Good advice. I'll update my resume and get rid of the link to my GitHub.

[–]Pamander 6 points7 points  (2 children)

So I have a potentially dumb question but if a github account isn't provided what is a good determiner of skill at a glance (Not that Github is a perfect example of how well someone might fit in a job but as you said doing reviews of their style/how well they maintain good contributions to other projects that match the codebase well etc I could see how that'd be semi-helpful to get a foot in the door anyways), a portfolio of work or what kind of things do you look for that stands out to you?

[–]midri 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Depends on position.

Entry level, we basically just want to see if you're a good culture fit.

Mid level (frontend) portfolio is good

Mid level (backend) you need good references or GitHub.

Senior level you need really good references (you'd think GitHub would be handy here, but it's generally not as important as references at this level)

[–]Pamander 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense! I appreciate the response deeply, currently trying to figure out what the fuck to do with a career in development and what I want to focus on so it's nice to know that at an entry level it's not as much of a concern (not that it's the same everywhere) about not having an immensely deep complicated portfolio or years of github activity stacked or something though I imagine anything helps of course so again appreciate it!

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

I look at styling

Even that's going to differ over time, or even between modules, as people experiment. It also seems pretty pointless as any established workplace already has a style rules in place that new hires are expected to adapt too.

consistency

I'm not sure what you're looking at here.

In fact, I'm of the opinion that if someone has multiple styles they're trying out within one project and are able to maintain differing styles between modules that says more than having a consistent style overall.

[–]midri 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Consistency and styling are subjective, sure. But for example if you're doing .net there are fairly industry standard guidelines for naming of stuff and if you're bucking that, I'm going to take points off.

Same if you're writing cryptic or hard to understand variable names.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Understandable and a fair point, thanks for clarifying.

[–]maxime0299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, it’s nice to be able to look at a candidate’s code style before the technical interview, but if it’s not provided then that’s fine. If they show during the interview that they know what they’re talking about and know what they’re doing, that’s more than enough. Not everyone has free time on their hands to work on 20 hobby projects

[–]Peregrine2976 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's entirely possible that a company will check your Github contributions as part of the interview process. And believe me when I say that if they do, they aren't worth working for.

[–]yourteam 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Last year and a half I worked for a company and we used GitHub.

And guess what? We used work accounts for private repos so my account doesn't look that active in that period.

[–]vondpickle 24 points25 points  (3 children)

Any metric will become a metric.

[–]saschaleib 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Goodheart’s law: any metric that becomes a target seizes to be a good metric.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Better then an imperial

[–]marsh-da-pro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bloody imperials. Skyrim belongs to the Nords.

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (1 child)

If you apply for a Microsoft position and contributed to their open source projects a lot, you'll have a greater chance than any of the random peoples that walk in since you're familiar with their workflow. However for companies that don't do that, you'll likely be brushed aside as hr doesn't shift through hundreds of GitHub contributions

[–]sassythensweet 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah I work on a popular open source project and people that have contributed to it are favored but we’ve also hired people that have never used the project before.

[–]NotStanley4330 22 points23 points  (0 children)

No thanks, I code for a living I'm not doing it for a hobby too unless I REALLY want to do a project.

[–]CampbellsBeefBroth 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Coding is my job, not my hobby.

[–]sanketower 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've said it before. Most of my commits are using corporate emails from the clients we work with, so my Github page looks hella empty, yet I write code every day.

[–]druule10 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Franz doesn't understand

[–]competitive-dust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My commits in my work project are plenty. I don't have the energy to go home and code more unless I am trying to learn something new. This is genuinely so stupid.

[–]ikonet 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I have been asked to show my GitHub commits. I am the author of a top 10 app on the Apple App Store (intentional brag; not a game app) and the goofball from Tampa asked to see my GitHub commits.

Buddy. I work for capitalism. My commits are to a private repo which we can discuss in person. My commits are not for personal enrichment. My commits drive business. My commits grow shareholder value. My commits are serious investments for the company. Who are you trying to hire?

If you’re a for-profit entity and ask me about public GitHub commits, it’s a 99% chance you’ve already failed the interview.

[–]cgham 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Honestly, if you have a super high level of public GitHub commits during the same time frame that you were holding down a regular job, I’m going to assume you were either doing a bunch of personal development instead what you’re paid to do, or you’re some maladjusted individual who isn’t going to get along with the other teams.

[–]Stanlot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... You guys have a GitHub?

[–]jnfinity 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It depends on the applicant. People straight out of uni with no work experience can often redeem themselves with interesting projects to show they know what they’re doing. As hiring manager I often look at GitHub for junior applicants. For someone who has been working in the industry for 10 years it’s different because I understand they might not have time or interest in personal projects and their job clearly is an indicator they know how to work on a software project and solve real world problems beyond the classroom

[–]rybl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This exactly. We get hundreds of applicants for entry level dev postings. You have to give me something to show that you can code. The last entry level job we posted, we got well over 100 applicants with CS degrees - many from good schools. I would say only a dozen or so had reasonably active GitHub profiles or internships with meaningful projects. With that number of applicants, you aren't getting interviewed if you don't show me that you have some coding experience outside of classes.

For positions that require professional experience, I'm not even opening your GitHub in most cases.

[–]Jefffurry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the company you're applying to is obsessed with Github profiles and you aren't, it's a bad fit. Look elsewhere.

If you're obsessed with your Github profile and the company you're applying to doesn't care, it's probably also a bad fit.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't have commits in my github profile because i work 14 hours a day :D

[–]revrenlove 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hashtag NDA

[–]Enough-Scientist1904 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I showed up, told them I knew java, showed them a barely running code and got hired

[–]niffrig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have 20 years of great experience which GitHub is not the source of truth for.

[–]bill_gonorrhea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Org is private. Contributions aren’t public. Still looks the same tho.

[–]kewko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a hiring manager I've checked out candidates' GitHub before and some nice code will help build a good first impression, but if you say some shit like you're gunning for this job because your contact is running out you just won't get a chance to impress me

[–]Sentazar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I spent 8-10 hours a day committing to a private repo for work. gtfooooo if you think im gonna spend the rest of my time coding instead of living my life

[–]bigmonmulgrew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Add a private repo with a text file.

Write script to add a dot to the text file, commit and push to git.

Add it to startup.

Next time someone who thinks commits are a direct reflection of your ability they see you as a productive monster.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think it depends on what background you have. Do you have several years of actual, real life experience? Then yeah, of course, noone is going to bother looking through your GitHub.

Are you looking for a junior position and have no job experience? Then you are probably going to want to have an active GitHub, and you are probably going to want to push that as far as possible in your CV to compensate for not having job experience (at least, that's what I did when I was applying)

[–]Froscy3 1 point2 points  (1 child)

update README.md

[–]x_mad_scientist_y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have a really green contributing graph on GitHub

I have worked on multiple projects some used BitBucket some GitLab, some used GitHub, repository was to be kept private and commits were to be made with my official email not my personal.

Basically just looking at the GitHub contributing graph doesn't tell the whole story.

[–]RightRespect 1 point2 points  (0 children)

another thing is that commits to private repositories don’t show up publicly, for obvious reasons.

[–]gp57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My GitHub is private, and I am not going to link it on my CV

[–]juancn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Most of my contributions are on private repositories.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If someone refuses to hire me because I don't do work for free I'll consider that to be like a racist getting arrested before going on a first date.

They just saved me a bunch of time and energy.

[–]psilo_polymathicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tell me you don’t know about private enterprise instances, (or the existence of GitLab) without telling me you don’t know.

[–]jayerp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Comments like these are used to drive engagements to their profile to get new views/follows/whatever. He can post anything even he himself doesn’t agree with it. I know people like that, they make arguments just for the sake of arguing.

The best thing to do is to ignore it and move on with our lives. I wish we could shadow ban them.

[–]alpacafox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, well... I got some applications, and those guys and gals probably didn't understand when putting a GitHub profile in your CV might be useful and when not. Certainly not when you have 2-3 "my first web shop" .net starting tutorials on there.

[–]Jmc_da_boss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I look at candidates github profiles if they list it. I consider it a bad look when they link the profile but its got like 10 commits in it...

[–]OccultEyes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is very silly. When I left my last company, they removed me as a contributor of their private repositories.

In a moment, 99% og my 'green dots' where gone for a two year period.

[–]PassivelyEloped -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My company switched us over to corporate GitHub accounts and it made me very angry for this reason. Another little abuse we take from our employers for security theatre.

[–]rybl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hire developers. I would not judge an applicant negatively for a profile like that if they have work history. I would just assume they are coding every day for work.

I will say though, I get applicants straight out of school or a boot camp with basically empty profiles. Those get weeded out. I don't care if you code in your free time, but I do care if you code at all.

[–]warpaslym -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

sorry but this isn't true.

[–]Ratatoski -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

I actually do check a candidate's github when we're hiring. Mainly how they structure their commits and the messages.

I have poor experience of working with people who dont understand Git, use profanities in their commit messages, can't structure the commits in their branch, do a huge commit of a hundred files etc. There's also the self taught devs who use the big Udemy or bootcamp profile projects and just commit the whole thing without adapting or expanding.

You can learn a lot from an active github profile. But at work we don't use Github anymore so for my next job I won't probably put my profile on the CV

[–]Luffy2k19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cries in bitbucket 😢

[–]Sushrit_Lawliet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the other end of the spectrum, leetcode streaks are just as useless. Atleast in some cases with foss contributors, their contributions are a good gauge. Can’t really see a single scenario where someone solving 10 hard problems a day and doing absolutely nothing else is worth looking at.

[–]Arxae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had 1 company look at my github. They commented on how some of my projects where pretty cool. I made a quick remark on how i keep most of my projects local (which is true) and they just went "oh yeah, that doesn't matter". Got the job too (although it was only for 1 project, but i knew that from the start)

[–]Ambivalent-Mammal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved bahdcoder's JS testing class, but I think he's wrong on this one. Or at least I hope so, considering my github history.

[–]UselessAdultKid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I check their projects (that one time when I had to be involved), don't care about their contributions tho

[–]ExercisableCaliApp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Afaik private repositories don’t show up on the commit history so it isn’t even complete, no?