[zuzu89]

this is a perfectly reasonable decision when hiring for a startup, why waste hours, that you don't have, on interviews testing the candidate when you can lookup their past work

[siva7]

That's in no way reasonable and would show pretty weak hiring skills in a ceo obvious to people who have hired many engineers in the past.

[chinchilla2020]

Almost 100% of my work (in midsize to big tech) is confidential. I cannot go sharing my work due to 10,000 confidentiality agreements.

I can share my random side projects... but what is the use of that? They aren't that impressive compared to my actual work.

My fear is that I will have to put lots of advertising into myself for things that don't describe what I actually do.

[zdragnar]

Considering how important networking is to startup businesses, you'd think a startup founder would put a little more weight on an employee referral than only considering their GitHub profile.