Wow, I&#x27;ve never seen that.  I mean, people often like to see some kind of evidence of something you&#x27;ve worked on, and looking at someone&#x27;s Github profile is an easy way to do that. But I&#x27;ve never heard of stars and forks being used as a crude filtering mechanism.<p>There are so many factors that go into whether or not a repo becomes popular, which aren&#x27;t necessarily related to anything that reflects on the creator&#x27;s merits as an engineering hire.  I think you&#x27;d skew your candidate pool in a weird way if you leaned on these metrics too heavily.   Honestly, I&#x27;d be curious to hear more about how it&#x27;s used in hiring.