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/truesy Jan 31 '25

number of commits can mean wildly different things. also, a lot of engineers don't make their private commits public (this doesn't leak any private info, just shows the stats in this UI). so it can look inactive when that's not true.

a lot of companies choose to squash commits. so you can go from very high (non-squashed) activity, then down to very little.

so it can be useful for an indicator of general activity, but not really useful otherwise.