>You realize that github dates can easily be falsified, right ?
Yea, but why would someone bother in this case?
>Besides, you are only using this as a negative ? So you'll actually hire people who don't put in extra effort over people who put slightly substandard free time code online ? That seems like a losing strategy.
That's not what I said at all. It's potentially a positive or a negative, just like anything else on a resume. I've seen plenty of Github profiles that have files with 2000 lines of spaghetti code and no structure or testability. Just like I've seen profiles with neat projects and excellent code.
>I've always found that willingness to put in effort vastly outperforms ability. Not to an infinite extent, but quite a bit.
Yea, but why would someone bother in this case?
>Besides, you are only using this as a negative ? So you'll actually hire people who don't put in extra effort over people who put slightly substandard free time code online ? That seems like a losing strategy.
That's not what I said at all. It's potentially a positive or a negative, just like anything else on a resume. I've seen plenty of Github profiles that have files with 2000 lines of spaghetti code and no structure or testability. Just like I've seen profiles with neat projects and excellent code.
>I've always found that willingness to put in effort vastly outperforms ability. Not to an infinite extent, but quite a bit.
I agree with this in general too.