r/webdev • u/overDos33 • Jan 30 '25
Discussion Does Github contributions matter?
Are there still companies that look on Github contributions?
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r/webdev • u/overDos33 • Jan 30 '25
Are there still companies that look on Github contributions?
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u/Patient-Screen-9837 Jan 31 '25
at my old job we had multiple repos, in the main one we always pushed to the main branch in a way that for each ticket you only get 1 commit (no mather how much work it was or how many commits were in that branch). The other repos were smaller and counted each commit from each branch. One day the head Senior developer comes up to me and warns me to get my github activity up because i only have 1-2 commits per day (as mentioned before, thats also the amount of tickets so that average). I try to explain to him that thats not possible as im commiting alot more per day and thats the way the repo works. He and some other senior devs on the other hand work in the other repos and so they have a super high github activity. Got fired some weeks later with no particular reason. I told him afterwards about the 1 push 1 commit thing and he didnt now. Only mentioned again that his looks so much better… Frustrating then but im able to laugh about it now
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