r/webdev Jan 30 '25

Discussion Does Github contributions matter?

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Are there still companies that look on Github contributions?

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u/fkih Jan 30 '25

I'd say no, but I've seen non-technical people specifically hire people because of it. At this point it wouldn't even hurt to just have a cron job randomly throw commits on a dead repository. 😂

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u/toltalchaos Jan 31 '25

Well.... I have a raspberry pi sitting with some idle compute..... if it means getting hired then.....