GitHub contributions are a vanity metric.
And they shouldn't even be a consideration in the hiring process.
Take mine for over 2024 for example.
I'm building an app, it's at some 600,000 lines of code, 40~ global components, 20+ features.
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And they shouldn't even be a consideration in the hiring process.
Take mine for over 2024 for example.
I'm building an app, it's at some 600,000 lines of code, 40~ global components, 20+ features.
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but my Github doesn't look that impressive.
Why?
- Because I've been working full time (on a different account)
- I don't commit every day
- Most of my commits are intentional and meaningful
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28 commits a day? 365 days a year?
That's mostly garbage.
Most of their commits will be either single lines of code or documentation changes.
They're spamming Github.
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Some other metrics are needed.
I mostly work on hugely complex models, and more important than all those commits can be ONE real algorithmic insight or new mathematical approach.
Am i wrong, or does Github (even coding!) not account for creativity, depth, or insight into problems?
If so, doing a whole bunch of work locally or on another platform & only occasionally syncing to GH can also scew their graph.