I think going as far as filtering for developers based on their Github repo star counts is not a good idea.
I was on an interview once where the CEO anc CTO tried to figure out if I write good code or not. I mentioned a Github repo of mine that I made entirely to be able to show what kind of code I write. The CTO then mentioned that the repo doesn't seem to be very popular and did that in a snarky way.
Sure, it didn't have any starts or any activity on it, but it had many hours of my work in it and it was a perfect indicator of how I coded at the time. Even though I probably dodged a bullet there, them dismissing that entirely because it had no stars was still discouraging.
I think going as far as filtering for developers based on their Github repo star counts is not a good idea.
I was on an interview once where the CEO anc CTO tried to figure out if I write good code or not. I mentioned a Github repo of mine that I made entirely to be able to show what kind of code I write. The CTO then mentioned that the repo doesn't seem to be very popular and did that in a snarky way.
Sure, it didn't have any starts or any activity on it, but it had many hours of my work in it and it was a perfect indicator of how I coded at the time. Even though I probably dodged a bullet there, them dismissing that entirely because it had no stars was still discouraging.
When interviewer judge your skill on something other then the code itself you have only one thing to do, RUN!!!
Wow. That employer seemed to have missed the point entirely.