[BeaverGoose]

"Please star my repo so I can get a job" is brutal

[OsrsNeedsf2P]

As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)

[Agentlien]

I have a few blog posts which have received only about ~250 upvotes across different communities, plus a GitHub project with just 30 stars.

Still, both of these were really interesting to my future colleagues (not the recruiter) who interviewed me in the last round of the interviews which landed me my current job. They had read them ahead of time and it really shaped the technical part of the interview.

[Sesse__]

I've had recruiters be “impressed by my GitHub profile”, when I didn't have a single project on my GitHub profile.

[abhaynayar]

maybe not the recruiter but the hiring manager or prospective colleagues who'll interview you later?

not the number of stars, but I like looking what people have done online ie GitHub/blog. I feel like it is a nice thing to talk about.

I know it's an unpopular opinion these days cause everyone wants work life balance and not work beyond the office but it's always nice to see projects you've worked on it does show some interest. also while one can fake GitHub activity it's hard to fake well thought out and cared for projects.

it's easier to fake metrics from your previous jobs like I saved X amount of money for the company or had Y efficiency gains.

[nurettin]

I was contacted by a spanish HR agency, they said that my github contained code that they considered an outlier and would like to forward some job applications. Never heard of them since. Maybe scraping github for talent isn't good business.

[wting]

As a hiring manager that visited every resume Github link because of my FOSS background, >99% of them had nothing of substance (no activity, school projects, etc).

[Svoka]

I hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.

[tigerlily]

I had to go back and look. Absolutely skewered it.

[kgwxd]

Is that the title it gave itself?

Edit: Oh no, that was for the repo I actually stared before seeing this. I'm just learning Go :)

[nmz]

The future is now

[ekropotin]

I have to admit, that one hurts

[Lockal]

Should be: "New account spams HN with AI generated slop (emojis included), third attempt"