Ask HN: Hiring engineers through GitHub contributions – show me your workflow

Exploring how technical hiring happens in practice vs how we talk about it happening.

If you've hired engineers where GitHub was part of your evaluation:

- What specifically did you look at?

- How much time did you spend per candidate?

- Did it change your hiring decision, or just confirm what you already thought?

If you're an engineer who's been contacted because of GitHub activity:

- What do you think caught their attention?

- Was it your own projects, contributions to others, or something else?

I've seen everything from "starred repos tell me their interests" to "I read through their last 6 months of commits". Personally found it useful to look at contributions across multiple repos in a domain, but curious what signals others actually rely on vs what's just hiring theater.