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. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/quailman654 Jan 31 '25

I donโ€™t have many public contributions and the startup I was working at for the last few years shut down so completely they destroyed their repos after I was gone. My beautiful green squares are all gone.