[umanwizard]

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?

[yen223]

I find that if you're not in Silicon Valley, 50% of the stuff on HN won't matter to you.

[fillskills]

Very off topic, and I dont completely agree with you. But you had me laughing out loud in a coffee shop.

HN has a suprisingly vast and interesting topic base. My mom (a complete non techie) and my sister (Bio Medical engineer) read it on a regular basis.

[mbubb]

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).