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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by gaius on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:34AM (#15345618)
To be fair the days when Github was a strong signal are long over. When interviewing it is rarely worth the interviewers time to look and figure out if it is original code or just forks. Whether the CV is well formatted and free of spelling mistakes is actually a much stronger signal than whether it has a Github link on or not.
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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by malyk on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:58PM (#15353976)
Agreed. Every single time I've ever looked at a github profile for a candidate they've had 1 or 2 original repositories that are as bare bones as possible and 18 forked repositories so it "looks" to the untrained eye (i'm guessing recruiters) that they have an active profile.
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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by Vendan on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:30AM (#15356596)
And then you have others with 90+ repos, and 75%+ of them are original code, and have thousands and thousands of lines of code. Maybe all your candidates have been weak/just out of school.

Also, forked repos are fairly obvious, and there's a dropdown to just show source repos, and if they are manually forking to prevent it from showing as a fork on there, that's a pretty shady indicator that you may want to follow up on...

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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by gaius on Thursday September 28, 2017 @06:24PM (#15361284)
Those candidates are 1 in 100, seriously. If you have a stack of CVs to filter, it literally is not worth looking at everybody's Github to check. Just filter by formatting and spelling and you're probably good.
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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by Vendan on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:52PM (#15361980)
And that's why I think resume based hiring is shit, cause my resume isn't great, but my github and skills are stellar. But people like you would chuck my resume in the trash without thinking twice cause I'm not currently working as a programmer.
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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by gaius on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:03AM (#15364244)
If that's true, the target of your blame should be the weak candidates who flooded Github with junk repos. And/or whichever journo or blogger started telling those people that "having a Github" was a shortcut through the hiring process.
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