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GitHub Heatmap
A great heatmap isn't required, but it certainly doesn't hurt. If your heatmap looks bare, you should figure out what's wrong in your workflow that's preventing your work from being tracked properly... or you should code more often!
- Are you not committing often enough?
- Are you not pushing often enough?
- Are you not storing all your code in GitHub?
- Is your heatmap not public, or are your settings not showing commits to private repos?
Over time, if you're consistently writing code, your heatmap will fill up and look great. You should be coding at least 3-4 days out of the week if you're serious about landing a job. This is what I'd expect the heatmap of a serious developer to look like:
Don't feel bad if you're not there yet - but make the changes you need now so that you're there in a few months!
Vibe coders are running rampant, so you also don't want to have a suspiciously high number of contributions. It's not anything to worry about if you're actually writing code, but don't try to fake your contribution graph because employers are more wary of that sort of thing these days.