12 years ago I was interviewing for a job and I was surprised that it didn't include any coding bits, only a few light technical questions on the first interview.
When I asked for this I was told they had looked at my GH account and that it was clear that I had the skills they needed. That was nice.
Something similar happened on the job after that.
But in the last two gigs I had to do a coding exercise and I was a bit disappointed that my GH didn't seem to have an effect.
The difference? In the last two jobs the companies were big organisations, with a clear interviewing process, and the technical interview was on hands of almost random engineers that could even not be part of the team I was joining.
When I have been involved in the process, I always look for public open source code. So far I have never had a candidate with an active GH account.
Personally, I have been happier working with the people that cared about these things.
When I asked for this I was told they had looked at my GH account and that it was clear that I had the skills they needed. That was nice.
Something similar happened on the job after that.
But in the last two gigs I had to do a coding exercise and I was a bit disappointed that my GH didn't seem to have an effect.
The difference? In the last two jobs the companies were big organisations, with a clear interviewing process, and the technical interview was on hands of almost random engineers that could even not be part of the team I was joining.
When I have been involved in the process, I always look for public open source code. So far I have never had a candidate with an active GH account.
Personally, I have been happier working with the people that cared about these things.