Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub contributions?

Re:Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub ... by brey on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:41AM (#6506792)

I still want to see the thought process behind problem solving, and associated communication, especially when in unfamiliar territory - code output alone doesn't show that.

But the existence of a github account is strongly correlated to a hire. It's depressing how many candidates haven't even heard of github...

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Re:Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub ... by gaius on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:14AM (#6506865)

These days, now that word has gotten out, it's not unusual to see fake GitHubs, with an unmodified fork of another project in say. HR is not equipped to evaluate this, it needs an engineer to git clone and take a look.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub ... by mordae on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:32AM (#6507074)

Hmm, it's not that hard: https://github.com/plt/racket/commits?author=mordae

You can find "repositories contributed to" in people's profiles.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub ... by gaius on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:41AM (#6507240)

Your HR department knows to do this? I call shenanigans.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub ... by marco-fiset on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:52PM (#6509931)

An HR department should not be hiring software developpers.

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