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Do the people here preaching github being a useful tool for candidate evaluation realize there are private repos? I use github everyday but none of the outsiders looking at it are going to get a sense for my coding style because they can't see the content of the commits.

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Yes. I am guessing they are taking that into account and expect you to do the same.

Getting some code public now and then will the outside world get that 'sense' easier than other methods.

I've ran into this where both my day job code and side project code are proprietary. I looked at my github profile and felt underrepresented. Now I have the goal to push something public here and there.

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