Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?

Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by PopeDotNinja on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:04AM (#19414070)

+1 for this. I used to be a recruiter, and knew hiring managers looked at GitHub profiles. When I started, I used to to stress out over pushing crappy code to my GitHub account. At some point I realized that anyone judging me for stuff I put into GitHub was simply not someone I would ever want to please. My GitHub is mostly a graveyard for experiments, learning, and goofing off, and that is exactly what I want it to be :)

If you have something really notable in your GitHub account, maybe it should probably be on your CV/resume, too!

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by _asummers on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:46PM (#19415607)

I've started doing this -- my resume has an "Open Source and Public Speaking" section for putting in noteworthy GH accomplishments.

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by gumby on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:22PM (#19417991)

I’m curious: why bother to use GH then? Why not simply have various repos in your filesystem?

It feels to me like having a blog site and only putting notes, scraps and drafts in it. Maybe there’s some functionality i’m not seeing?

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by Washuu on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:33PM (#19418294)

I push to Gitlab from home so that I can pull down to the computer in the shop. Fleshing out an idea is much more comfortable in the home than standing up in front of a an old computer.

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by PopeDotNinja on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:11PM (#19418211)

It's a good question, and I don't have a specific answer. I guess the short answer is because I want to. It's convenient for a number of reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by wildpeaks on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:24AM (#19420191)

You could keep experiments in private repos if you worry about showing crappy code.

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