AI PM Interviews Now Require GitHub Project Portfolios

The 24% number is misleading because it makes GitHub sound optional. It's optional the way a portfolio was optional in 2019. Within two years every serious candidate had one. Here's the constraint nobody's pricing in. AI PM interviews have shifted from "tell me about a product you'd build" to "show me something you've built." Interviewers at Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI now ask candidates to walk through their GitHub during the technical round. They're not checking code quality. They're checking three things: did you pick a real problem, did you document your tradeoffs, and are you building with current tools or tools from 18 months ago. The last part is the killer. A GitHub with repos from 2024 using GPT-3.5 wrappers tells a hiring manager you stopped learning. A GitHub with repos from this month using Claude Code, multi-agent orchestration, or RAG evaluation frameworks tells them you're current. The PMs who moved fastest on this built their GitHubs in 2-3 weeks using AI coding tools. Cursor and Claude Code write the code. The PM writes the problem statement, the documentation, and the tradeoffs section. That's the actual skill being tested: can you define what to build, explain why, and ship it? 76% of PM candidates don't have a GitHub yet. That's not a statistic about what's required. That's a window of differentiation that's closing fast.