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

Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by peruvian on Sunday March 17, 2019 @08:35PM (#19417796)

In the past year we grew our team from 6 to almost 30 and counting. About 10 of those 30 are senior engineers (between 8-15 years of experience). So far everyone's been very skilled and great to work with.

We work in GitHub, and of those who use their personal profile for work, all of them have "empty" profiles and no meaningful OSS contributions. They spend their free time with their family and in other hobbies.

People who hack on OSS for fun are usually good developers, but good developers rarely hack on OSS for fun especially once they get older.

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by drdaeman on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:20PM (#19417980)

I didn't mean hacking OSS side projects for fun, on free time. Why everyone reads it like that?

I meant, using FLOSS libraries for the actual job, during normal work hours. Depends on the industry, of course, I guess.

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by zrobotics on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:29AM (#19419255)

The trouble is, many of the people who responded to you had a legitimate point. I've done embedded development with OS libraries that I've extended, but there was 0% chance of me opwm-sourcing any of that code. I didn't even ask. Not everyone works in a field that is conducive to OS models. Consider that there are people who work in the military space who read this site, and the thought of open-source would give their managers aneurysms.

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Re:Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile? by zrobotics on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:23AM (#19419236)

The trouble is, many of the people who respond

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