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Interesting analysis. 👍🏻 One question: how come for both 2016 and 2017, the Ignore percentage is so high? I saw you said that for 2017 the data appears to be broken, but was wondering if it's the same for 2016? "...this also might be that there have been more small to mid-sized companies over the years. Smaller companies typically require more generalists, but now I'm just guessing." => I think this is a good point. Another way to look at this is that according to McKinsey, "Of the 20 million software engineers worldwide , more than half are estimated to be working outside the technology industry". Again, purely speculative, but I would assume that non-software companies have less specialisation in their IT departments than technology companies.
A lot of developers that I interviewed didn't have any activity on their GitHub. So the first thing I'd look for is simply whether they have a profile and if they are active. In terms of projects, if they are junior devs, I don't even care that much about the type of project that they've completed. Any project that shows a passion for programming will do. Dumebi Okolo