I work at a huge company named after a big river in South America. I don't know of anybody in my org that has a GitHub, and maybe like 1/10 of the resumes I see for interview candidates have one. Is this "expectation" a San Francisco thing?
No, NYC. But good point.
Maybe it is a 'deformation professionelle' but I feel like it is common.
I have been interviewing in adtech, financial tech, educational tech and ecommerce companies, not ones named after SA rivers (Rio Plata, Orinoco, Putumayo?).
Some applications have boxes for github, linkedin accounts. Also I have been asked for it in interviews. In 2 cases I have seen programming tests where step one was 'clone this repo...' (one a fintech the other a big data audience tracking company).
Why? I've been a coder for 10+ years, dont have a github account. Never used git. All the enterprise projects I work on chugg along just fine on local source control servers of various flavors (CC, Mercurial, SVN, etc...)
This. I have a github account, and when I wasn't working as a developer, it was more active. Right now, all my code contributions go to closed, company-hosted repos. I'm coding more now than I was before, but you won't find any of that on my github. It's the -- possibly unfortunate -- nature of private industry, but that should be a surprise to no one. Sure, I'd love to work somewhere that lets me contribute to FOSS projects during my work day, but that is a much smaller subset of all jobs that involve software development.