"I chose to only consider people who have at least one [GitHub] repo. You can be more liberal and look at everyone, but empirically profiles with 0 repos have been pretty useless."
"You’ll probably want to find the person’s LinkedIn to see where they work and how long they’ve been there ..."
This is just lazy recruiting for people who don't actually have contacts and can't use those contacts to find good candidates, so instead they use social networking as a surrogate indicator of actual talent.
Um, no one has enough contacts to ping and hire the amount of candidates a start-up or any other company needs. This isn't lazy recruiting, this is just recruiting.
"You’ll probably want to find the person’s LinkedIn to see where they work and how long they’ve been there ..."
This is just lazy recruiting for people who don't actually have contacts and can't use those contacts to find good candidates, so instead they use social networking as a surrogate indicator of actual talent.
Bleh.