[morgante]

Seriously, I had to stop reading this article after the ridiculous hyperbole of the first sentence.

Most things that most developers work on are private. More importantly even when the code isn't private, the context and reasoning behind it is often far more important than the code. Resumes tell a story, code is just data.

Whenever I've hired people, GitHub has never been a significant factor. It is, at best, a minor boost (if someone has a bad resume but a prolific GitHub, I'll give them an interview). It's definitely not enough to ever get hired.

Even as someone who has been relatively active on GitHub in the past, it was never an important part of my job searches. My resume is a lot more important.

[wccrawford]

I think you've hit the nail on the head here.

I also use someone's GitHub profile as a way to give me a reason to interview them, and some things to talk about in the interview. I also use their resume, and if we give them a small project, the results of that.