This is very interesting, it appears to be catering to devs who love to work on own project and see help on SO.
It also helps a competent manager to see the code structure and such.
Nothing wrong with that, but! ask yourself, if all the SO profile is all questions and no or no correct answers, what does this tell you?
How would you know if the repos are not forks or copy paste jobs?
And what kinda projects will be in the repos?
For sure nothing proprietary, hence private projects.
Have these projects been done during work time or during time off?
Both are bad, if the dev worked on private projects during work or if they go and code 5 hrs a day after work, or any unhealthy amount.
I used to do many projects outside of work,things like sign up, log in features from scratch in node because I thought I need to learn the next new thing, but once I moved positions into a more product ownerish role, ie, much more work, I had literally no time any more to spin up a personal project.
But yes, all in all, this is much better than applying at the typical company where hr is writing nonsense job requirements like 15 years experience in golang and such.
Nothing wrong with that, but! ask yourself, if all the SO profile is all questions and no or no correct answers, what does this tell you?
How would you know if the repos are not forks or copy paste jobs?
And what kinda projects will be in the repos?
For sure nothing proprietary, hence private projects.
Have these projects been done during work time or during time off? Both are bad, if the dev worked on private projects during work or if they go and code 5 hrs a day after work, or any unhealthy amount.
I used to do many projects outside of work,things like sign up, log in features from scratch in node because I thought I need to learn the next new thing, but once I moved positions into a more product ownerish role, ie, much more work, I had literally no time any more to spin up a personal project.
But yes, all in all, this is much better than applying at the typical company where hr is writing nonsense job requirements like 15 years experience in golang and such.