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I had a friend working with a well known startup founder. The founder was interested in me from what my friend told him, all he wanted to see was my github profile. All of my github projects are private. That was the end of that, even after he already knew that my experience was perfect for their company. So ya, some people definitely put too much emphasis on the github profile.


You can share private repos? Granting access for a week isn't hard.


Why should parent bother if the startup ceo can't be bothered to interview on the signal of a personal referal?


Because they want a job and need to pay for the goods and services they desire to utilise?


If you were to share your current job's private repos with me, I wouldn't hire you since that's a signal that you would do the exact same when you leave my company.


I would presume they are organizational/protected repos which cannot be shared due to a contractual obligation, not private and personal repos.


this is a perfectly reasonable decision when hiring for a startup, why waste hours, that you don't have, on interviews testing the candidate when you can lookup their past work


That's in no way reasonable and would show pretty weak hiring skills in a ceo obvious to people who have hired many engineers in the past.


Almost 100% of my work (in midsize to big tech) is confidential. I cannot go sharing my work due to 10,000 confidentiality agreements.

I can share my random side projects... but what is the use of that? They aren't that impressive compared to my actual work.

My fear is that I will have to put lots of advertising into myself for things that don't describe what I actually do.


Considering how important networking is to startup businesses, you'd think a startup founder would put a little more weight on an employee referral than only considering their GitHub profile.




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