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Does your GitHub profile actually help you land a job?

Many people in workplaces and tech environments debate the importance of a GitHub profile for landing you a job. Many employers expect to see a link to your GitHub, considering it a representative portfolio for developers🤔🤷‍♀️.

đź‘‹Hey, Code Wizards, how are doing, I am doing great. I have been seeing these types of discussions for so long. I've been on LinkedIn, X, Mastodon, and almost every developer community. People are being encouraged to paint their GitHub green as evidence of their commitment and ability to meet client needs. But how far true is that?

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What if you have a personal repository but rarely commit to it, and your work mostly happens in private corporate repositories that you can't showcase?

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