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Discussion on: Why do employers check job candidates' GitHub profiles?

 
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Jennifer Konikowski

Yes? But the employer is paying the employee for their time and expects them to work on, well, WORK while they are at work. And, while you might not see a reason, I've worked at plenty of jobs where my employer did not want me working on OSS during the day. They were perfectly good jobs and I liked what I was doing.

And that project? That was a random code challenge that I decided to put up on my github. Not really OSS... just a garbage Rails project.

You are speaking from a place of IMMENSE privilege and I hope you can recognize that at some point. In the meantime, I am happy to not be working on a team with you.

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Jennifer Konikowski

Also, I'm a terrible example. I don't have kids and actually have 8 hours to work on some dumb project.