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In my last 3 interviews , i asked recruiter if they saw my profile (which is fairly basic , but it's content was relevent for the jobs). And they all had the same answer : "No , i didn't had the time". And i was in the final rounds of the process.
Keep in mind that that people who can appreciate the profile are technical people who have another job in addition to recruitment and probably lot of other candidate to evaluate.
If you are targeting open source , having a top notch profile is a good idea, for sure. But for more standard job i wouldn't worry too much about it.
I for one when I am on the recruiting side will make the time to look at your GitHub profile.
Yeah a recruiter is not going to look at your github page, however the hiring manager most likely will. That said the only way the profile will be taken into consideration is if it displays any valuable achievements.
To be honest i see 2 cases where having a nice GH profile can be useful :
And no in my last interview none of hiring manager took the time to watch my GH profile. The technical test and the debrief after it was what they were interested in. But that probably because i have 15+ years of experiences and they don't need to assess my coding capabilities as much as a beginner.
That's a very good point on seniority and will definitely play into what info gets considered.
Agreed!!
Many recruiters don't look even your LinkedIn profile. A lot of them send first contacts based on the knowledge section automatically and ask questions later. But even if they don't look, other people could so, isn't a bad idea either to have a good user profile page on GitHub.
Agreed, having good GitHub profile wont hurt !!
And now, that have Azure repo, AWS Committ, GitLab, and github private.
Nice article but I would also recommend putting infos about your Stackoverflow profile 😉 For me it was really helpful during recrutement as a junior. I specially created the stackoverflow-readme-profile project that provides dynamic badges showing your overall ranking on a specific technology 🏆
Recruiters are often impressed when you have higher reputation on SO than them.
Amazing write-up Shubhangi 👏 and thanks for the mention!
Likewise, thanks Void!!
Great article! I don't think people who don't code (most recruiters) will look at your GitHub but it can help with the technical interview. I use readme-scribe github action to generate my profile, it shows the current activity, contributions, blog posts etc. and automatically updates it to keep the content relevant. Love it.
Thanks Maurer !!
Great piece. You are going in the right direction. Keep it up. 👏
Truly appreciate it thanks Zubair !!
Great write up!
I think maintaining a good GitHub profile is probably more important for companies that deal a lot in open source software. Those that are a little more invested in open source culture.
Generally whenever I interview someone (and it's been this way for the past 2 companies I've been at) I usually only give their GitHub a cursory glance, if I have the time. Most of the time, I didn't have a lot of time to really dig in because I was so busy with non-recruitment stuff.
What I would generally be looking at however is less what they've collaborated on - and more: which repos they own. I'm usually interested in their side projects and things they're passionate about, which gives me a little more fodder during the interview to discuss.
Thanks for sharing your perspective and its interesting to grt to know more about side projects too.
It's awesome
Thanks.
You're welcome !!
Github profile is really important for getting more attention.
Amazing Article!
Thank you Sudip!!
Learning in Public and Open Source is very Powerful. You can check lovepreet.hashnode.dev/ I just have started and will continue posting consistently
thats awesome and best of luck
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I am a beginner in future i will add more useful things. I think for getting starting it is nice.
My Github Profile
Looks good !!
Even if the recruiter and hiring manager do not look at your GitHub profile, the members of the team who do the technical interviews will probably do.
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