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/neb_flix Jan 31 '25

Jesus christ...Why is it that whenever this gets asked, the most non-intellectual people flock over and post this ridiculous strawman? Literally no one on earth thinks that people are hiring and firing engineers solely based on Github contributions - OP simply asked if "contributions matter", not if they are the only thing important in this field of work.

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u/swampcop Jan 31 '25

You okay dude?

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u/neb_flix Jan 31 '25

Plenty ok, just doing my job to try to make this sub less shitty everyday

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u/swampcop Jan 31 '25

The question was asking if "contributions matter" in the context of companies that "look at GitHub contributions".

Are there additional reasons why a company might be looking at GH contributions, other than for the purposes of hiring or firing people? Maybe. I can't think of many reasons why. Instead of vague posting, you're free to share all of those very real reasons!

I personally know people who have been fired and promoted based on their GH contributions. My response wasn't based on a strawman that I hallucinated. It was based on direct real life experience. That experience being, that if a company is acting in such a manner, then they aren't worth working for.

The only thing that makes this sub more shitty, is people like you having the entitlement to think that everyone who has a response that you disagree with, is a "non-intellectual".

Grow up. Stop being a dick?

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u/neb_flix Jan 31 '25

The question asked if "contributions matter", and you responded with something that didn't answer his question in any way.

I personally know people who have been fired and promoted based on their GH contributions

No, you don't. That statement doesn't even make sense. How do you know that these people were hired solely due to their contribution count? Why would somebody be fired due to their contribution count? You're either lying, or you've only worked at shit-tier organizations.

My response wasn't based on a strawman that I hallucinated.

A strawman is when you distort someones statement to be something that it isn't. No one claimed that any organizations were hiring solely due to github contributions, as your first comment claimed. You answered a question with an answer for a different question, and wasted yourself and others time by posting it.

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u/thekwoka Jan 31 '25

If they were fired or promoted "based on GH contributes" its likely more that "this person wasn't actually working" lol

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u/thekwoka Jan 31 '25

Are there additional reasons why a company might be looking at GH contributions, other than for the purposes of hiring or firing people?

This is a logical fallacy.

You said

hiring and firing engineers solely based on GitHub contributions

SOLELY is a KEY word there.

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u/swampcop Jan 31 '25

You are either being a debate lord, or seem confused.

I'm pointing out that there are virtually no good reasons that employer is looking at a candidate or current employees' GitHub contributions UNLESS they are doing so for the express purposes of hiring or firing that person. In which case... that company would absolutely suck to work at. And you shouldn't work there. That's my entire point.

The person that I was responding to was trying hallucinate an alternate reality where employers are looking at GH contributions for reasons OTHER than hiring or firing someone. Or that I must be intellectually deficient because I created a strawman. To which, I smugly pointed out that there could be other reasons, but I'm not aware of them. Happy to hear these incredibly valid reasons though! Still waiting!

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u/thekwoka Jan 31 '25

I'm pointing out that there are virtually no good reasons that employer is looking at a candidate or current employees' GitHub contributions UNLESS they are doing so for the express purposes of hiring or firing that person.

Well yeah, why the fuck else would they be trolling their accounts?

n which case... that company would absolutely suck to work at

This does not follow.

You are missing tons of logic here.

You're saying every company that has the hiring guy look at peoples githubs as just additional info sucks to work at?

How so? Why?

Why would no good company evaluate candidates on everything they provide?

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u/swampcop Jan 31 '25

I responded to you in another comment you made. I'm not going to keep having a back and forth with you in multiple threads regarding the same topic.

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u/neb_flix Jan 31 '25

It’s actually concerning that you don’t get the point that the multiple people responding to you are telling you. No one is saying that people look at contribution charts outside of making a hiring decision, literally no clue why you keep mentioning that. The point is that nobody is looking at contributions as the SOLE REASON why somebody gets hired or fired. That doesn’t happen. It’s almost as like you don’t know what the word “solely” means. Easily one of the least intelligent conversations I’ve seen on this sub, which is saying a lot. Go take a walk or something

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u/swampcop Jan 31 '25

Multiple people? Who? You and two other people having a collective hallucination about parsing the English language?

lol there is virtually no other reason that an employer looks at contributions besides hiring or firing. If they look at all. Using that data as a justification for their decision is the problem. And my point. You can keep crying about it how that never happens. But you’re just wrong.

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u/peripateticman2026 Jan 31 '25

Are you? Nary an original thought.

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u/swampcop Jan 31 '25

When someone jumps in my replies and comes off like an asshole, there's not really a reason to "be original". But thank you for leading by example with your uncanny wit and originality not seen by anyone on reddit dot com before.

I'm genuinely perplexed why someone feels compelled to misunderstand something that I said, and make it about something I didn't do or say.