We Ditched Resumes for GitHub Profiles: Cut Hiring Time 50% for Our Open Source Team

For most tech teams, the hiring process starts the same way: a pile of resumes, a tired recruiter skimming for keywords, and weeks of back-and-forth with candidates who look great on paper but can’t write a line of production code. For our open source maintenance team, that broken process was costing us 6 weeks per hire, and half our new joiners needed months to ramp up because their resumes didn’t reflect their actual skills.

We decided to blow up the status quo. Last year, we stopped accepting resumes entirely for technical roles, replacing them with GitHub profile reviews as our primary screening tool. The result?…