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I've talked to a whole lot of people who are dealing with the problem of college -- for CS, the solution is generally obvious to us: open source work is not mer

I've talked to a whole lot of people who are dealing with the problem of college -- for CS, the solution is generally obvious to us: open source work is not merely useful on a resume, but so valuable that past a point nobody even asks you about college. The problem seems to be that "a Github account" only exists for software development. For almost every other field that college covers, there's no equivalent. And the vast majority of college students aren't CS majors.

gaius 16y ago
but so valuable that past a point That point is pretty high tho'. The thing is, that people who don't hire people usually don't understand, is that programming experience that organizations are interested in is only experience of programming to external requirements under external constraints, because that is what working programmers do, e.g. "write a program to do X on system Y by time Z", where none of those things are what you would have chosen yourself. Which is why it's a really bad idea to put on your CV that you've had 10 years experience when you're 21, the guy interviewing you has 10 years actual experience and he'll not be impressed.