[eshvk]

On the flip side, I have very rarely found an interviewer who has actually read through my github code. It is more like they are scanning through an imaginary checklist of 'has github account, has repositories in it' etc. The other day I got asked by an interviewer if I knew python. This was rather strange to me because we had just talked about one of my github projects ...which was an ml library for python.

My point is that if having a github account becomes a silly barrier like having an education from top school, it kind of defeats the point of being fair whilst also acquiring good people.

[emidln]

When I was the interviewer, the most useful lines to determining competency tended to be find github code, ask pointed questions.

As someone who is now interviewing for a new job. I've had three interviews this week ask pointed questions on github contributions including requests for me to change things on the spot ( or talk through a change that might occur).

[yummyfajitas]

tl;dr; If you take a good practice and cargo cult it, you'll get bad results.