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I hear this a ton, yet in the past decade, I’ve never looked at more than a resume before filtering into the yay/nay buckets for tech phone screens.

Do you all actually dive deep on every resume?

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Whenever I've been on the interviewing side of things if a potential applicant lists their GitHub profile I checked it 100% of the time for interesting side project, open source contributions, etc.

Same here. If you list a GitHub profile in your CV I expect it to show at least one repository with code you have written yourself or meaningful contributions to an open source project.

We don't do coding challenges during the interview, so I want to see you can actually write code.

But make it something useful, I don't really care to see you know how to press the "Fork" button or +1 a bug report.

I don't. I usually have ~100s of candidates per role. Is not practical

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