Personal fact: majority of the job offers i get are after recruiters had looked at my GitHub profile. majority of those are companies: I would most definitely work for. majority of the job offers i get through LinkedIn, cold calls, cold emails, COLD TEXTS; they don’t even give two shits about what i do and are generally from staffing agencies, hired by companies that don’t seem to know who they’re trying to hire, for what and why. It’s a guessing game based on who has the most ____ resume.

The author makes an extremely valid point. open source has been around for decades. it has had decades to grow. it builds trust, it builds community, it builds relationships and it does indeed act a portfolio for the general developer. not every developer has an alma matter to flash into peoples faces as proof of worthiness and knowledge.

butttt…. what about GitLab? BitBucket? and other GitHub alternatives? it’s not necessarily a GitHub thing. it’s a public display of work and interests. these days, companies do not have time, patience or care to make assumptions about resumes and poor interview processes, when they can simply get an aspect of someones work ethics through open source contributions. That’s what really matters.