I've had some really good experiences as a candidate, since my GitHub has a couple repos that are actually used by people and have some stars. I've even had an interviewer tell me he had used one of them before, that was nice.
As for hiring for my team, the results are unfortunately much less useful. The vast majority of GH repos are completely useless, half finished tutorials or some long abandoned project.
Sometimes I have found some really interesting work though, and this always earns the candidate an interview from me.
But I agree that I'm in the minority, most other senior developers or managers don't care about it at all. And I've never had a recruiter mention it.
As for hiring for my team, the results are unfortunately much less useful. The vast majority of GH repos are completely useless, half finished tutorials or some long abandoned project.
Sometimes I have found some really interesting work though, and this always earns the candidate an interview from me.
But I agree that I'm in the minority, most other senior developers or managers don't care about it at all. And I've never had a recruiter mention it.