The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
I do a lot of recruiting, for both paid and volunteer coding roles. I&#x27;ve been hiring for about 13 years, and I&#x27;ve been coding professionally for about 25 years. Before that I coded as a hobby, from about age 11.<p>Speaking from this experience, and as someone who reviews on average 20-50 coder profiles a week, the public commit history of a coder is almost never a significant factor. I don&#x27;t see any trends that indicate this is changing, either.<p>The vast majority just don&#x27;t have much to show, having spent their years working behind walls on closed software.<p>Instead of relying on a public portfolio that in most cases won&#x27;t exist, I rely on talking to these people directly, programmer to programmer. If we can code together, on the actual code they would be working on, that&#x27;s about as good as it gets.<p>In other words, I rely on my experience as a coder to help make what are, ultimately, subjective judgement calls.