As a candidate looking for jobs, I've never cooperated with any recruitment agencies. But as a senior developer responsible for tech interviews, I ...
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Great article; even though it was a bit lengthy you held my interest until the end. Thanks for sharing your experiences. It was particularly interesting hearing what it was like dealing with an agency when hiring.
The very first job I managed to get in IT was by literally walking in to a company and asking who I could give my CV to and then having it passed along by reception to the dev manager.
I have also found though my own experiences over the years that the less a recruitment agency is involved the better. Really is best if you can just talk with devs and managers at a company to see if you like each other and go from there.
I guess you're totally right about who should lead the recruitment process. When you have some middle-layers like recruitment agency you can end up with lots of refuse.
I like the GitHub idea and sometimes use it in my recruitment processes.
How do you deal with someones account having more than one repository? You are asking him to present you the best representative?
I've seen many different GitHub accounts and I'm always trying to browse all repositories. Very often I come across some university or bootcamp projects and I ignore them because I don't know what part of the code was really written by the candidate himself/herself. Sometimes I see recruitment tasks done for other companies and if they were solved within last few months, they usually tell me enough about the programmer. My favorite repos are those for personal projects where you can really see how much heart a person puts into programming.
Some candidates tell me their favorite/best representative repo, some do not. You're right, I should ask them - I shouldn't judge a candidate by his/her 5-year-old repos ;-)
However, during the interview, when I see different projects mentioned in a resume, I usually ask the candidate to pick his/her favorite project and discuss it. When I see projects made with different technologies (Symfony/Laravel, React/Angular), I like asking which framework he or she prefers and why :)