The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
I do a lot of recruiting, for both paid and volunteer coding roles. I've been hiring for about 13 years, and I'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't see any trends that indicate this is changing, either.<p>The vast majority just don'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'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'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.