GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring
&gt; While he has written a ton of code at his work in the last year, he hasn&#x27;t posted anything that can be viewed publicly: he has no public commits, he hasn&#x27;t created any repositories of his own and he has an insignificant number of followers. Despite all that he&#x27;s still the best developer I&#x27;ve ever had the pleasure of working with.<p>This is more a problem for the developer, not the company. The company may have a smaller pool of candidates by evaluating based on GitHub profiles, but they will have more data to use in their evaluation. If they don&#x27;t have the resources to pay for the premium of being selective, they may evaluate candidates from a wider pool (those without GitHub profiles&#x2F;history). The candidates without GitHub profiles will receive the attention from those companies not willing to pay a premium for their services.<p>This can be generalized in other ways beyond GitHub. GitHub, in this sense, serves as a marketing tool, similar to LinkedIn, a personal site, a blog, a resume, etc. Provided it&#x27;s a free marketing tool, the developer has little to lose by investing their time into marketing theirself and a lot to gain by receiving more demand.