GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring
I made the mistake of thinking an active github account was a good proxy for &quot;Is this person interested in tech enough to work here?&quot;. I was called out on it at a conference (fortunately for me at a bar and not when I was on stage), by someone who pointed out that many people just don&#x27;t have time to work on side projects and push them to Github.<p>Maybe they work 8 hours a day on a bank or government project that is all private and then they spend the rest of the day acting as a care giver to a relative, studying, or volunteering in a women&#x27;s refuge. All noble activities that I would consider positives for a candidate, but I&#x27;d never know if I just checked &quot;Do you go home and cut code out of hours?&quot;.<p>I mistook my own privilege of free time as a universal truth and I&#x27;m glad I was called out on it early on and able to change my (interviewing&#x2F;screening) ways. I wonder what else I need someone to call me out on...