Pfff! what an idiotic thing to say, as if public repos should somehow be the measuring stick for competence at the workplace.

Pretty low bar. Some people in senior development positions shouldn't/couldn't/wouldn't show you their Github work even if they wanted to.

imagine how exciting it will be when this person discovers there's whole other areas of life experience that others do differently, as well.

does his shop brag about their "hiring diversity?"

It blows mine to see that a one line Twitter throwaway comment is worth bothering HN with.