"I chose to only consider people who have at least one [GitHub] repo. You can be more liberal and look at everyone, but empirically profiles with 0 repos have been pretty useless."<p>"You’ll probably want to find the person’s LinkedIn to see where they work and how long they’ve been there ..."<p>This is just lazy recruiting for people who don't actually have contacts and can't use those contacts to find good candidates, so instead they use social networking as a surrogate indicator of actual talent.<p>Bleh.